Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d818089f782cbbc2…

MALICIOUS

RTF

218.0 KB First seen: 2022-04-08
MD5: d1059e10fd56e5c15477b1fd04f6d54c SHA-1: d082f469a4c16a45089924a01164ac9edf03936f SHA-256: d818089f782cbbc21eaced97f1d08aa0759070ee2523c823d27cd292a4a1c6fa
123 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The RTF document contains multiple OLE objects, with heuristics indicating the use of ".objupdate" and Composite Monikers. This strongly suggests an attempt to exploit OLE object activation to execute embedded code. No document body text or scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of the specific payload or lure. The attack pattern is inferred from the OLE object exploitation.

Heuristics 4

  • 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000007d0.bin
0bed0c3ec9b775e5d755c655e625bf344599fa45bae864f997884641e92287dd
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7D0 15933 bytes
objdata_01_off000089e2.bin
1721aab459b68b884f13b5caf8aed48f2f1a5eb3d65c1b2ddac08c7c93062de4
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x89E2 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off00009f85.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x9F85 12297 bytes