Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8999d1472bd1c562…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.4 KB First seen: 2023-09-05
MD5: db6ca75e59e5018ce801ba1c70cfb0c8 SHA-1: 03d7fe634dfa6a37322199eae7eb28a3664e46fd SHA-256: 8999d1472bd1c56292c3230c718e4eb496094ac9847f82dcb250553200cd44e1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF file contains OLE object data and an \objupdate directive, indicating an attempt to exploit a vulnerability to activate embedded content. This is a common technique for delivering malicious payloads. The specific exploit and payload are not discernible from the provided evidence.

Heuristics 2

  • \objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATE
    RTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000093.bin
0e1ba7bf11679bff4ca00299c8cac2c409571a2f7e64e173d4359a5b101f12a0
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x93 2661 bytes