Office (OLE) malware analysis — malicious · 0beb6ca3ceb45a44

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

126.7 KB Created: 2012-11-23 04:35:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2015-09-17

MD5: 48005fbd1a5b80f1dd3cf99d68e4ad90 SHA-1: 3ff87a028a274417d1971dcf3800d0b19f46c308 SHA-256: 0beb6ca3ceb45a44c93bf9451f27af1c0dce4442821e15a29ee92f3b362efafb

162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is an OLE document containing a NOP sled and a large slack region, indicative of appended executable content. It specifically targets the MSComctlLib.Toolbar.2 component, matching CVE-2012-0158 / CVE-2012-1856, which allows for exploitation for client execution. The presence of appended payload bytes further supports this attack vector.

Heuristics 5

MSCOMCTL.Toolbar — CVE-2012-0158 / CVE-2012-1856 high CVE likely CVE_2012_1856

MSCOMCTL.Toolbar — CVE-2012-0158 / CVE-2012-1856

NOP sled detected high SC_NOP_SLED

Found 20+ consecutive 0x90 bytes

Disassembly

Attempted x86 opcode disassembly

00002C50  90                nop
00002C51  90                nop
00002C52  90                nop
00002C53  90                nop
00002C54  90                nop
00002C55  90                nop
00002C56  90                nop
00002C57  90                nop
00002C58  90                nop
00002C59  90                nop
00002C5A  90                nop
00002C5B  90                nop
00002C5C  90                nop
00002C5D  90                nop
00002C5E  90                nop
00002C5F  90                nop
00002C60  90                nop
00002C61  90                nop
00002C62  90                nop
00002C63  90                nop
00002C64  90                nop
00002C65  90                nop
00002C66  90                nop
00002C67  90                nop
00002C68  0000              add byte ptr [eax], al
00002C6A  0000              add byte ptr [eax], al
00002C6C  0000              add byte ptr [eax], al
00002C6E  0000              add byte ptr [eax], al
00002C70  0000              add byte ptr [eax], al
00002C72  0000              add byte ptr [eax], al
00002C74  800000            add byte ptr [eax], 0
00002C77  800000            add byte ptr [eax], 0
00002C7A  008080008000      add byte ptr [eax + 0x800080], al
00002C80  0000              add byte ptr [eax], al
00002C82  800080            add byte ptr [eax], 0x80
00002C85  0080800000c0      add byte ptr [eax - 0x3fffff80], al
00002C8B  c0c000            rol al, 0
00002C8E  808080000000ff    add byte ptr [eax + 0x80], 0xff
00002C95  0000              add byte ptr [eax], al
00002C97  ff00              inc dword ptr [eax]
00002C99  0000              add byte ptr [eax], al
00002C9B  ff                .byte 0xff
00002C9C  ff00              inc dword ptr [eax]
00002C9E  ff00              inc dword ptr [eax]
00002CA0  0000              add byte ptr [eax], al
00002CA2  ff00              inc dword ptr [eax]
00002CA4  ff00              inc dword ptr [eax]
00002CA6  ff                .byte 0xff
00002CA7  ff00              inc dword ptr [eax]
00002CA9  00ff              add bh, bh
00002CAB  ff                .byte 0xff
00002CAC  ff00              inc dword ptr [eax]
00002CAE  ff                .byte 0xff
00002CAF  ff                .byte 0xff

OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY

OLE file is 129,719 bytes but its declared streams total only 20,824 bytes — 108,895 bytes (84%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
OLE file has appended executable-looking payload bytes high OLE_APPENDED_PAYLOAD

OLE compound file contains a large high-entropy region beyond the declared major streams and that region includes shellcode, PE, or loader API markers. This is a payload-carrier signal, not a specific CVE attribution by itself.
Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL

One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.

URL http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main In document text (OLE body)

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