Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc8ae41681fdf19a…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

799.1 KB
MD5: 2087de574fefae441db7ced132da6407 SHA-1: 6d8b4083d71075be31068808232805ea486f77d8 SHA-256: dc8ae41681fdf19abcf62b27b3d8359c32ba6f20bee1e24b7ce9b37d4faebe8b
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.005 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Visual Basic

The RTF document contains OLE object data and an \objupdate directive, indicating an attempt to embed and activate external content. The document body presents a lure related to financial audits, instructing the user to 'click Enable editing', a common tactic to bypass security measures. This suggests the file is designed to trick the user into executing embedded malicious code, likely for further exploitation.

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_off00020227.bin
ee4d662a225d33d47e515d3277be63f1b9a91958e2fdbf68bf92fc99ccd491ab
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x20227 3724 bytes