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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 163d31da2ea787f0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

813.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-11-28
MD5: c3053b96d64adcd18348616d669955db SHA-1: edfc12333d970f4c2bd5adae78e0c28a6e6a5109 SHA-256: 163d31da2ea787f02366a324f86cae80369d5ae7e7f61caf107f871434c3fa7f
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates the exploitation of a known vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. The presence of an OLE object containing this exploit payload strongly suggests the file is designed to leverage this vulnerability upon opening. No VBA macros were found to be executable, and the document body was unreadable, making the Equation Editor exploit the primary vector.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • VBA project contains no executable statements low OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains a VBA project, but extracted modules only contain attributes/options/comments and no executable statements.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
1d3b71b8c6234aace88f31f6e674b07383e015a2e68993dcd4fc2526aa470fe5		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2412 bytes
ole10native_00.bin
6c77df986120363358af193c5bbec189eb8a279972ffc14c9d10cae9170aea46		 ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD012FE5DC/OlE10NATIvE 1929 bytes

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