Formbook — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06c872f82861afc5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

152.1 KB First seen: 2022-08-01
MD5: 8e5db46c6e8397770393d7fa29c42399 SHA-1: 48f5e0e8897da3293021a450196f857cc5518b1e SHA-256: 06c872f82861afc5b44ccec0915cb7eac53d236a7db54a1d65600253adbf2f76
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Formbook · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1204.002 Malicious File: Server-Side Request Forgery T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The sample is a password-encrypted XLSX file identified by ClamAV as Doc.Downloader.Formbook. High-severity heuristics indicate it contains an embedded Equation Editor OLE object (xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin) that is malformed and exploits CVE-2018-0798. This exploit carrier is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Formbook's typical behavior.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • CVE-2018-0798 — anomalous Equation Editor native stream high CVE likely CVE_2018_0798_EQUATION_NATIVE_ANOMALY
    Default-encrypted OOXML contains embedded Equation Editor data with anomalous native stream bytes consistent with a CVE-2018-0798-style exploit. This is treated as likely CVE evidence because the Equation object is malformed and payload-like.
  • 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.

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