Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b87e5e9d1ada9064…

MALICIOUS

RTF

4.87 MB Authoring application: Msftedit 5.41.15.1507
MD5: 58695a73b0093240632ef0e85a3c8020 SHA-1: 0a6facff7989744b32568a5fff0c9239f039a926 SHA-256: b87e5e9d1ada90648605a81e99d4657692d5308d8efd68791dffc4741bc0b8b4
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking T1137.001 DLL Search Order Hijacking

The RTF document contains multiple indicators of malicious OLE objects, including embedded objects and package objects. High severity heuristics indicate the presence of a PE header within hex-encoded data, strongly suggesting the embedded object is a payload. The file's SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 5

  • PE header (with DOS stub) in hex data critical RTF_MZ_HEX
    Hex-encoded PE (MZ + DOS stub) found inside RTF — likely an embedded executable payload
  • Package object class high RTF_OBJCLASS_PACKAGE
    OLE Package object — can wrap arbitrary files
  • Large hex data blocks in OLE object high RTF_EXCESSIVE_HEX
    RTF contains ~3958KB 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
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000d1.bin
809dc9311dd466a3f68db8657edcc985b4f001ac8169ae278466cd1ebeed48d0
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xD1 1929896 bytes