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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f9518850a148f11…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

175.0 KB Created: 2001-12-14 14:26:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 9.0
MD5: 0e99c34c4311fd067d8044a946d82d65 SHA-1: b5167758a3f0a73b5a0e0d6eee013dc44c8ab0db SHA-256: 0f9518850a148f1142801a0678e028de10f07ab93a7c743ac3240aabb5e54aea
322 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The sample exploits CVE-2006-6456, a vulnerability in Microsoft Word's handling of malformed table SPRM data. Heuristics indicate the use of WinExec, CreateProcess, VirtualAlloc, LoadLibrary, and GetProcAddress APIs, suggesting the execution of downloaded code. Suspicious cmd.exe invocation further supports this. The embedded URLs are likely used to fetch a secondary payload.

Heuristics 9

  • CVE-2006-6456 — Microsoft Word malformed table SPRM critical CVE exact CVE_2006_6456
    WordDocument contains a malformed table border-color SPRM in the CVE-2006-6456 shape: a valid table-SPRM cluster is followed by an invalid high-byte 0xFF SPRM where Word expects a normal sprmTBrc*Cv record. Vulnerable Word 2000/2002/2003 parsers corrupt memory while handling this malformed data structure.
  • Reference to WinExec API high SC_STR_WINEXEC
    Reference to WinExec API
  • Reference to CreateProcess API high SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS
    Reference to CreateProcess API
  • Suspicious cmd.exe invocation with execution flag high SC_STR_CMD
    Suspicious cmd.exe invocation with execution flag
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 179,200 bytes but its declared streams total only 94,801 bytes — 84,399 bytes (47%) 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).
  • Reference to VirtualAlloc API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALALLOC
    Reference to VirtualAlloc API
  • 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://ihearttibet.org/?page_id=20
    • http://www.tibetnetwork.org/resources-10march2010

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