Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b9f47972855a57b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

14.7 KB Created: 1996-10-14 23:33:28 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 15.0300 First seen: 2020-07-24
MD5: 1fcc2438808c5e35cd489e208b36f979 SHA-1: 490f4b0a6ba422bb60459d8bd0f58d71f79028a7 SHA-256: 0b9f47972855a57b0402cb51ee15e3bb198699f169858bce956e84bc7303adb5
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The document contains an embedded OLE object, specifically an Equation Editor object, which is flagged as anomalous and indicative of CVE-2018-0798 exploitation. The document body includes a clear 'ENABLE EDITING' prompt, a common lure to bypass macro security. The presence of the OLE object and the lure strongly suggest the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability for initial execution.

Heuristics 4

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    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
    Embedded Equation Editor OLE data contains anomalous native stream bytes consistent with a CVE-2018-0798-style Equation Editor exploit. This is treated as likely CVE evidence because the Equation object is malformed and payload-like, but it does not match the exact public matrix-overflow byte signature.
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 4096 bytes
SHA-256: 4b8e4e978582ca04f6cad3ac130461538fb25170ee1c9e57a98540f4d2829637
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin ole-package OOXML xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin Ole10Native stream: OLE10NATive 1610 bytes
SHA-256: 233eb933be3fc2e5a547242933014de9fb56653dd8fbaf68bb06cb13773c4c95

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