Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef07859ddad1d6ef…

MALICIOUS

RTF

128.8 KB Created: 2018-12-12 16:35:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.0.5604 First seen: 2019-01-25
MD5: 1f1fc8c11bac9c8d64f425b4410d8e96 SHA-1: 022d19dc50d0a9f36c65fab0dabd439c560d949b SHA-256: ef07859ddad1d6ef0e775eea126701ebc8cf4ad11fd614a4d7e1c02532c44aad
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains embedded OLE objects with ".objupdate" directives, indicating an attempt to activate and execute embedded content. Static triage identified shellcode candidate regions within these objects. This suggests the file is designed to exploit OLE vulnerabilities for client-side execution, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Heuristics 5

  • \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 2 \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.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0000b758.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xB758 8899 bytes
SHA-256: 4c56eb00213a01c2c8e91cf83b8e7eec7152b51e5879dc114197f0cd017bbb26
objdata_01_off0001225b.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1225B 21300 bytes
SHA-256: f4f60e0288996edeeaa81f9fc427c32d3674c2d6afdeaab619d96fd279252ada
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL, SC_STR_URLDOWNLOAD Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: LoadLibraryA, GetProcAddress, ExitProcess, URLDownloadToFileA