Win.Trojan.Cycler-241 — RTF / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83c19704c312d322…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

103.7 KB Authoring application: Msftedit 5.41.15.1515
MD5: 9b5e9509ef39435b594de30340db2d37 SHA-1: 47870760847a5656ef3fb972ebf9762f8b258fae SHA-256: 83c19704c312d322aa3604f264a90861c74a3479e3f6bd55a0e31954e6db38b4
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Cycler-241 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object, identified as a package object, which in turn contains a PE header in hex data. ClamAV detections confirm this is a malicious trojan, specifically Win.Trojan.Cycler-241. The presence of an embedded executable within a document strongly suggests it was delivered via spearphishing, with the intent to exploit the user's trust to execute the payload.

Heuristics 6

  • PE header (with DOS stub) in hex data critical RTF_MZ_HEX
    Hex-encoded PE (MZ + DOS stub) found inside RTF — likely an embedded executable payload
  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Cycler-241 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Cycler-241
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Package object class high RTF_OBJCLASS_PACKAGE
    OLE Package object — can wrap arbitrary files
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000c3.bin
ae702f73750cab0ba305e4bd50322738d7e46f9e609bd2c16998dfb8b9e88223
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xC3 47883 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Cycler-241
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely