Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99ce68472dfb792c…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

217.8 KB First seen: 2022-04-14
MD5: 0b0d48dca3d9fae28f131ee32fd5ed8d SHA-1: 79b804a42d00c7fc7c8199e3fb3bbdbe59423ea4 SHA-256: 99ce68472dfb792c71a6df3eebab739f7b413d3c92e69a6db13d5f97c4d4699c
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains embedded OLE objects and uses an \objupdate directive, indicating an attempt to activate embedded content. The document body explicitly instructs the user to 'download the document and click Enable Editing', a common lure for macro-enabled malware. The presence of embedded artifacts suggests these are likely payloads or components thereof, intended to be executed upon user interaction.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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_off0000095d.bin
075040ced9a888450e5418de2f20c12e8bf9fb64bf22b682723cfa2baabb5d3a
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x95D 15670 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
objdata_01_off0000894d.bin
36dcadcd9dba6c796320cf103eee4d99a0cf65218f74bac40d0f472a6487a1f8
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x894D 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off00009ef0.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x9EF0 12297 bytes