Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac235ee549d37f73…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

344.9 KB
MD5: ca00fce15969a08e4bd79ff64dc02fd6 SHA-1: 43a7610f472d626de803b2d83032ea39513d7c48 SHA-256: ac235ee549d37f73ef1e0c42971f7b7be529bff01db122897a8601bfccda246e
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains multiple OLE objects, with specific heuristics indicating the use of ".objupdate" and Composite Monikers, strongly suggesting an exploit targeting OLE activation. One of the extracted artifacts, objdata_00_off000007ce.bin, is flagged as suspicious due to script execution terms. This indicates the document is designed to leverage OLE vulnerabilities to execute embedded malicious content.

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_off000007ce.bin
ebaefbae1dc6abbe913faaea22370e889696752fb4676a12bb642bd2a531f8e6
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7CE 78433 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
objdata_01_off000285af.bin
ad7bf1923f855fca5949d0c557a2a819b106cd84b204870bcc59064eb0c6e331
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x285AF 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off00029b52.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x29B52 12297 bytes