Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9881f1985f91d2f1…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

217.5 KB First seen: 2022-04-14
MD5: 00f7fd0977d3a97c55e36dfefec80af9 SHA-1: 774b615905305f562793d277d5f51fa185f285bc SHA-256: 9881f1985f91d2f1f08dfe1d2d0a5376fdfb07dcedcb68260a413ad7c20264b2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1559.002 Component Object Model and Distributed Component Object Model T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF document contains multiple OLE objects, with specific heuristics indicating the use of \objdata and \objupdate to force OLE activation. This suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities related to OLE object handling, likely to execute embedded malicious code. The extracted embedded artifacts, objdata_00_off000007d2.bin, objdata_01_off000087e2.bin, and objdata_02_off00009d85.bin, are the likely payloads or components of the exploit.

Heuristics 5

  • Composite Moniker in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_COMPOSITE_MONIKER_RELATED
    RTF contains Composite Moniker CLSID in OLE object context, but no nearby scriptlet/SCT payload was confirmed. Treat as related moniker attack-surface evidence rather than proof of CVE-2017-8570 exploitation.
  • \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 3 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000007d2.bin
a12a881f11ef76bf496f741a25c9210b8adcdb7bec2e2e08424dc2e4c739aea8
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7D2 15686 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
objdata_01_off000087e2.bin
36dcadcd9dba6c796320cf103eee4d99a0cf65218f74bac40d0f472a6487a1f8
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x87E2 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off00009d85.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x9D85 12297 bytes