Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5e81ad30d09d515…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

95.4 KB Authoring application: Msftedit 5.41.15.1515
MD5: 91208582cfd9d77cc3afe39c97c4804b SHA-1: ea930eae3e0c7bab44260fbd6be218c566c7abd6 SHA-256: e5e81ad30d09d515d6b44f23313f0422be8c78eb52c93f507c03242e3b98c415
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object, identified by the RTF_OBJDATA and RTF_OBJEMB heuristics. This object, when decoded, likely contains a PE executable, as indicated by the RTF_MZ_HEX heuristic. ClamAV detections confirm this, identifying the file as Win.Trojan.Dropper-1878. The primary attack pattern is likely a dropper mechanism, where the embedded object is executed to download and run a secondary payload.

Heuristics 6

  • PE header (with DOS stub) in hex data critical RTF_MZ_HEX
    Hex-encoded PE (MZ + DOS stub) found inside RTF — likely an embedded executable payload
  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Dropper-1878 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Dropper-1878
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Package object class high RTF_OBJCLASS_PACKAGE
    OLE Package object — can wrap arbitrary files
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000ce.bin
fb33b27f785e362aba2c32a83a1baabfd35dc33d52bc648f92d89508b707dcbb
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xCE 44358 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Dropper-1878
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely