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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ce49396cbe14cd6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

2.43 MB First seen: 2022-07-22
MD5: c8f4fef365ca2a0c4c89b436c97bcc60 SHA-1: 4c34d682fb76516e4d7ff4b61abf3bc97389e36f SHA-256: 0ce49396cbe14cd66dd5e892d42d590b3c03f115c99d2169163d5428524fd1bb
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a malicious Office document that contains an embedded Equation Editor OLE object. This object is known to exploit CVE-2017-11882, allowing for arbitrary code execution. The extracted artifact 'ole10native_00.bin' is the payload for this exploit.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EDX) high SC_GETPC_CALL
    x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EDX)
  • 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
4df5a14ccc179d9ee7a67af99d00672db6627affba14bff8ea79ea26a9c80358
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: OlE10NATIVe 2530723 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.