Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d28b689369d8275…

MALICIOUS

RTF

218.0 KB First seen: 2022-04-08
MD5: e3d532268a1df2dea27ba6d85a0f9424 SHA-1: f69780d6cb1d0673c25406b27da4729a2a1933a8 SHA-256: 9d28b689369d8275b6de4377a08d636f72bfe7678d65cb98a06792845f1e736c
123 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains multiple OLE objects, with heuristics indicating the use of ".objupdate" and composite monikers. This suggests the document is designed to exploit OLE object activation mechanisms to trigger embedded malicious code execution. No document body text or scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of the specific payload.

Heuristics 4

  • 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000007d0.bin
f13273e9d9f96c05282f1dcaf36f521dcad6484a5033b372a3e3ede80b0dd08a
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7D0 15941 bytes
objdata_01_off000089f2.bin
1721aab459b68b884f13b5caf8aed48f2f1a5eb3d65c1b2ddac08c7c93062de4
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x89F2 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off00009f95.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x9F95 12297 bytes