Formbook — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03509a921e3f93ac…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

183.5 KB First seen: 2022-02-17
MD5: 50656830c71cb8b501863218386834a6 SHA-1: 738544567ce52b1e28b6a540aba086d5dace1cd6 SHA-256: 03509a921e3f93ac6d23789b01b5ca6a7222bf4507c2b8b2613b7c0b79fa1480
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Formbook · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is identified as a password-encrypted Office document, a common carrier for malicious macros. Heuristics indicate it's an exploit carrier and ClamAV specifically detects it as 'Doc.Downloader.Formbook', suggesting a downloader functionality. The encryption and structure point towards an attempt to evade static analysis, likely to deliver a secondary payload.

Heuristics 5

  • Encrypted Office package with CFB FAT corruption critical OLE_ENCRYPTED_AND_MALFORMED
    Encrypted-package shape co-occurs with FAT-chain corruption — the documented combined evasion form.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Formbook-bc97c1e0c33c3c93-9951465-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Formbook-bc97c1e0c33c3c93-9951465-0
  • 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)).
  • 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.