ISC: Getting the EXE out of the RTF

Recently, when the targeted attack with malicious RTF attachments was making the rounds, I wondered how to best get the embedded EXE extracted from the RTF for further analysis. On a Windows system, you would most likely simply copy/paste the embedded object from within RTF to an Explorer window, and end up with the original file. Since I do my malware analysis on Unix, this wasn't an option. Looking at the file, it appeared as if RTF was using some sort of hexadecimal encoding:

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