Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e1e47e161fc665a…

MALICIOUS

RTF

3.8 KB First seen: 2023-10-03
MD5: ecade0af264b3a1f7d3a91a54c8aa4c1 SHA-1: 1c8a6fd038e391527a4e0fe497bfedf3b3c33457 SHA-256: 8e1e47e161fc665ab7b9ada82b9d9e348a058ee865982035c27e758409714f60
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains OLE object data and an \objupdate directive, indicating an attempt to trigger OLE object activation. This is a common technique for delivering and executing embedded malicious payloads. The specific payload and its ultimate destination could not be determined 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_off0000008a.bin
f232b703f09f71b9cea5870014b0809900cff27f0d9d748e5b63a8f66292caf0
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x8A 1811 bytes