Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af0f1613c4265a5a…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

1.00 MB First seen: 2023-03-13
MD5: ce57d6e1defb119a0c2033c7863acf10 SHA-1: c9a8520e120f45a3ddc5a3db2303a36743ff64a6 SHA-256: af0f1613c4265a5adfb2a5b06a8abc91163daa51e28bd3657d2804c918371ab5
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The RTF file contains a large OLE object with excessive hexadecimal data, strongly suggesting it is a hidden payload. The ".bin" artifact extracted from the objdata further supports this. While no specific malicious behavior was directly observed, the structure and content point towards a malicious document designed to deliver a secondary payload.

Heuristics 4

  • \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.
  • Large hex data blocks in OLE object high RTF_EXCESSIVE_HEX
    RTF contains ~1053KB of hex-encoded data inside \objdata sections — may hide a payload
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000082.bin
72c60e377df127f12f7e0ce3007fac45646bc26f6ef426fb57ee2f80e6abb96b
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x82 526565 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.