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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 194d85738c43d889…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

511.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-11-14
MD5: ad0420c4a75e79fe39f5e4c9decf880b SHA-1: 1f483637acae3f35c97fa3dd9e855de4138af0b3 SHA-256: 194d85738c43d8892dac2550162fc8ff0ee3f29aec3701a426437792d9594b49
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file contains a critical heuristic indicating the presence of a payload exploiting CVE-2017-11882 within an Equation Editor OLE object. While the VBA macros themselves do not contain executable statements, the embedded OLE object is the primary vector for exploitation. This suggests the file is designed to leverage this known vulnerability for initial execution.

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
7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes
ole10native_00.bin
4e31e132e2f862a2373abd9bbeb1151587b22f86deef5c5c6421b07d241e21b9		 ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD012DB450/Ole10NAtIve 1897 bytes

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