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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 011dd6214e00e8bc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

1.65 MB First seen: 2022-10-28
MD5: da1e5b337d9076933073f2c0bc8ac64b SHA-1: cfac42c3592a75a824fd2755003e4d09e1cc61f9 SHA-256: 011dd6214e00e8bc0dcc578446668fdbfca370bc8daa41de49d41f90ff806273
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1559.002 Component Object Model Hijacking T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a Microsoft Word document containing an embedded Equation Editor object. Static analysis detected the presence of a payload associated with the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability within this object. This indicates the document is designed to exploit this known flaw to deliver a malicious payload.

Heuristics 3

  • Equation Editor Ole10Native payload — CVE-2017-11882 critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE
    An embedded Microsoft Equation 3.0 object (CLSID 0002CE02-0000-0000-C000-000000000046) carries an Ole10Native packager stream instead of the normal Equation Native/MTEF data. This is the weaponized Equation Editor RCE delivery shape used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 maldocs. The payload (font-record overflow + shellcode) is frequently encrypted and the stream name case-scrambled to evade scanners, but an Equation object holding an Ole10Native stream has no benign use.
  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Contains Equation Editor object — related to CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploitation, but CLSID presence alone is not the malformed MTEF exploit primitive.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
c51b60234185e63f62e56d8ecd993f9f8d9c7e881eab25abdaf745cf9a305f20
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: oLe10nATive 1710914 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.