Malicious Office (OLE) / .XLSX — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00a02a88981d178b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

719.5 KB
MD5: 0087ca4b5be36201bac7d9629b7337e9 SHA-1: 793f43618098ae688d729b5bc3ba43b9319e3d92 SHA-256: 00a02a88981d178bbd93470a6bac55044a56479efcae984a1f0de8d14826435c
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an encrypted Office document, identified by ClamAV as Doc.Dropper.Agent-7891361-0. It contains an Equation Editor OLE object, a known carrier for exploits. The encryption and the presence of the OLE object strongly suggest it's designed to drop a second-stage payload upon opening.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Default-encrypted OOXML embedded OLE object xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin contains the Equation Editor CLSID, the legacy component exploited by CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802, and CVE-2018-0798.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-7891361-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-7891361-0
  • Default-encrypted OOXML exploit carrier layout high OOXML_ENCRYPTED_EXPLOIT_CARRIER_SHAPE
    Default-password encrypted OOXML package contains embedded OLE object parts and additional activation/decoy parts. This layout is common in malicious Excel exploit delivery and requires inspecting the decrypted package.
  • Office document is password-encrypted medium OFFICE_ENCRYPTED_PACKAGE
    OLE container holds MS-OFFCRYPTO encrypted package (Standard Encryption (Office 2007+, AES-128)).
  • Office OOXML encrypted with default VelvetSweatshop password medium OFFICE_DEFAULT_PASSWORD_ENCRYPTED_OOXML
    OLE EncryptedPackage decrypts with Excel's built-in VelvetSweatshop password. Office opens this transparently, and malware uses it to hide OOXML exploit parts from scanners that only inspect the outer OLE container.