Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d25bf69135d4e932…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

72.6 KB
MD5: f14a3cca09cb4450c1d07d3f4d68286e SHA-1: 193d21c11fb5ea9682a9d79bd82906d220b9b4d1 SHA-256: d25bf69135d4e9321c2700984e715112a477e78d63c6c553250e6fac9cd32206
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an OLE object with decoded Equation Editor payload, indicating an exploit attempt. The ".objupdate" heuristic suggests that the embedded OLE object is designed to be activated automatically. The extracted artifact 'objdata_00_off00001fb3.bin' is likely the dropped payload. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the exact lure.

Heuristics 4

  • Decoded Equation Editor payload + PE critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF decodes to an Equation Editor ProgID adjacent to OLE activation and the same decoded object stream contains embedded PE bytes. This matches the Equation Editor exploit surface used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 documents, while requiring payload evidence to avoid flagging benign Equation references.
  • \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
  • 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_off00001fb3.bin
b9bb75b30ebc363088eb3fb277f46fb8e9f18e96bd8ec1d2704f104daeee9aa1
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1FB3 32883 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.