Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 946712b857f5929d…

MALICIOUS

RTF

9.0 KB First seen: 2023-07-06
MD5: 1aa902b726ba92d2461d2183472f899c SHA-1: 69c3247dcc0e061c9918a9723ba93229a803760f SHA-256: 946712b857f5929d15d1460183ec4d5e6f09b6096e99be7a37a8f167621d0206
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 OLE activation for code execution. The presence of embedded OLE object data suggests a malicious payload is being delivered. No document body or script content was available for further analysis.

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_off000012fb.bin
3988561d8947a86edb854672d1b34260d22c349f8247b1696cdd548c6e76048e
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x12FB 2124 bytes