Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5dba1abee1efc99…

MALICIOUS

RTF

4.77 MB
MD5: b2d1cb4a5ed1ad7b822bda9541b1788c SHA-1: c51dd7f70eb29ced7c0d50d0935d2365614b0a82 SHA-256: f5dba1abee1efc99b1c707b862b209698028ece5ff8f7962fc45417960fa4afc
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains multiple high-severity heuristic firings indicating the presence of embedded OLE objects with excessive hex-encoded data. The \objupdate directive suggests an attempt to force OLE activation, likely to execute a hidden payload. The large size and entropy of the decoded OLE object further support the hypothesis that it contains a malicious payload. The file's SHA256 hash is included as an IOC.

Heuristics 4

  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • \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.
  • Large hex data blocks in OLE object high RTF_EXCESSIVE_HEX
    RTF contains ~5000KB of hex-encoded data inside \objdata sections — may hide a payload
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 2 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000b0.bin
8728b1ea44ecaaaaee2c9336fc9eeea4c3cd319c0f8be06293a3b85ba85eb19d
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xB0 999498 bytes