Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8956afd1fc43b92…

MALICIOUS

RTF

108.7 KB First seen: 2020-07-24
MD5: 5751e59429a5e2f2688533d931f57b51 SHA-1: e504d46d789dbcff8d13a80cb03f535830566769 SHA-256: e8956afd1fc43b92d12df5533a3aa8313043b4c00d8cd9523dbe0402eba428cd
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The RTF file contains embedded OLE objects and utilizes the \objupdate directive, which are strong indicators of exploitation for client execution. The heuristic firings suggest that this mechanism is used to activate and execute embedded shellcode, likely a secondary payload. The extracted artifact 'objdata_00_off0000146a.bin' is the most critical IOC.

Heuristics 4

  • \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
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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_off0000146a.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x146A 32944 bytes
SHA-256: fe97b69f871610f66ede1e5b1321aa903e302763a8b4262aac9426e7c8eb5c83
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL