Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e225769c93a38f5b…

MALICIOUS

RTF

7.7 KB First seen: 2022-12-12
MD5: c8de75817ed659f165dccae963fc133f SHA-1: 23273262fe4114aa03d11854879dae913982debc SHA-256: e225769c93a38f5ba99bd4422eb0ca9282a87aab47eb3ecfab5e4f6464c521ea
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains OLE object data and an \objupdate directive, indicating it is designed to trigger OLE object activation. This mechanism is commonly used to execute embedded malicious code. The presence of objdata suggests the potential for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload.

Heuristics 2

  • \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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00001099.bin
6e24bb6347cfe134cdeae9f1c682fb4273b423b867a281514ecba063eb7adb21
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1099 1772 bytes