Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb41e7a822c92e38…

MALICIOUS

RTF

414.7 KB First seen: 2024-06-11
MD5: 699e5528b3c511cc6caea58d5582e61a SHA-1: 14791bbb4bdbe3fa25be286d9011ed61b56ae109 SHA-256: cb41e7a822c92e38f090d90807f57bb1bf68c347fdbc34abd8a8df53eae4eb33
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The RTF file contains OLE object data and an \objupdate directive, indicating it's designed to activate embedded objects. The document body provides a lure, instructing the user to 'Enable editing' to bypass security, a common tactic for malware droppers. The presence of these elements suggests the file is intended to exploit user interaction to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 3

  • \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 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000157db.bin
1bff080d7155aeb510460eab558d2edeb0c065149cefa09b9687fd5b768a5a56
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x157DB 1668 bytes