Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbd4bb68ae72c771…

MALICIOUS

RTF

306.1 KB First seen: 2024-07-05
MD5: de3ba4db4f0cf4d3b92ad9429de7545e SHA-1: 5b6eb61b2905c89698e5468a9a3dc468680b2d8e SHA-256: fbd4bb68ae72c7715dcf61c915bdbc48d4d60eb9cd6bae30d74aad3e796663c7
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing via Service

The RTF file contains OLE object data and an \objupdate directive, indicating it's designed to activate embedded objects. The document body provides a lure, instructing the user to 'Enable editing' to bypass security measures, a common technique for malware droppers. No scripts were extracted, and no specific IOCs like URLs or hashes were identified.

Heuristics 3

  • \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
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00016f50.bin
1a97bfc8ead9b78ac1abb05250a76f24d5cd29a34c8c7e8a73ebaea4460a71e7
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x16F50 1746 bytes