Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce68ea2ba25826f3…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

383.7 KB
MD5: c520c5655a6303df3c02f2a5bb856531 SHA-1: 3c486829055b4fb94ccb3adda8f6fb6460138190 SHA-256: ce68ea2ba25826f3fdfef3a86ec8ca08c10fe4013fb8108e6a82c870a7e9d255
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1559.001 Component Object Model T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF document contains multiple OLE objects, with specific heuristics indicating the use of \objdata and \objupdate to force OLE activation. This suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities related to OLE object handling, likely to execute embedded code. No scripts were extracted, and the document body contained only formatting information, making it difficult to determine the exact payload or user-facing lure.

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_off000007d1.bin
a95ddedd826efb92baa0ef27f91fbafcab0afae9dc9bc32c6ca98fcaeafd3ddc
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7D1 97527 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
objdata_01_off000320d6.bin
ad7bf1923f855fca5949d0c557a2a819b106cd84b204870bcc59064eb0c6e331
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x320D6 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off00033679.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x33679 12297 bytes