Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0da00aaa63a98aa6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

123.6 KB Created: 2007-09-18 04:34:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.
MD5: 61a3d6e653edde75cff3169cbede9089 SHA-1: 2cbee0d8b1f689d5f394a5ea0b9776ad9f591ea3 SHA-256: 0da00aaa63a98aa6b943dc2ca8a4a6bcea69db4d1cb1fbae08160f62bd8d1c6a
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an OLE document with significant slack space and an appended payload, indicating it is likely a container for malicious content. Heuristics suggest exploitation of a client execution vulnerability, likely delivered via spearphishing. The embedded OLE document further supports the presence of a secondary malicious component.

Heuristics 4

  • Embedded Office document has suspicious static findings critical EMBEDDED_OFFICE_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A CFB/OLE Office document was found inside another file type and its carved contents matched Office exploit or payload heuristics. This catches wrapped exploit documents where the top-level file routes to a PE, archive, or generic scanner instead of Office.
  • PEB access via FS segment (x86) high SC_PEB_ACCESS
    PEB access via FS segment (x86)
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 126,528 bytes but its declared streams total only 16,486 bytes — 110,042 bytes (87%) 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_off00004c00.ole
0d681ccbc0c9432d2fec2d2bab26b65a8c95ae1295e197a65e61e77700f3fb69
embedded-office Embedded OLE/CFB Office body inside ole container at offset 0x4C00 107072 bytes