Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c189a5878c860c31…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

383.4 KB
MD5: 2c8781d207498674a3512fd42a4b093f SHA-1: c7145a8dd8dd20b7f87c3798ba1cd696b727637b SHA-256: c189a5878c860c3172b87a193414ea838ac970b132636a22336b9d7726f59f34
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1559.001 Component Object Model T1059.001 PowerShell

The RTF document contains multiple OLE objects, with specific heuristics indicating the use of ".objupdate" and Composite Monikers, strongly suggesting an exploit targeting OLE object activation. One of the extracted artifacts, objdata_00_off000007de.bin, is flagged as suspicious due to script execution terms. This indicates the document is likely designed to drop and execute a secondary payload, leveraging the OLE vulnerability for initial execution.

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_off000007de.bin
8aea0bdca923f1d83734b45d13753f89be828e03aa2edc64eca98b49af9a69e3
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7DE 97381 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
objdata_01_off00031fb3.bin
ad7bf1923f855fca5949d0c557a2a819b106cd84b204870bcc59064eb0c6e331
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x31FB3 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off00033556.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x33556 12297 bytes