Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c508c6c42e30d3c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

30.8 KB Created: 2014-08-06 07:56:10 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 14.0000 First seen: 2021-02-23
MD5: 6d988e11ecb893e83d449ea9078958e8 SHA-1: 5d74e3c9c27f3ef2661922b7dcaeb639f4eb646f SHA-256: 1c508c6c42e30d3c77881f1122a41534eb604bdeac438959574bc2c649af37d1
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is an Office document containing an embedded OLE object. This object is identified as a package that drops an executable payload named 'Quxj.exe'. This indicates a likely attempt to deliver a secondary malicious executable to the victim's system.

Heuristics 2

  • Ole10Native package drops an auto-executable payload critical OFFICE_PACKAGE_RISKY_FILE
    OLE Package displayName or fullPath ends in a directly auto-executable extension (a runnable binary or a script the default shell host runs on double-click). Embedding such a payload inside an Office document has no benign authoring use — it is a malware-delivery dropper.
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: ppt/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 3584 bytes
SHA-256: 5bd12f1c1a8895c234db7fe0cdfdfdc15bc842f09eb985f624418c3cd4d1e202
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin ole-package OOXML ppt/embeddings/oleObject1.bin Ole10Native stream: OLE10Native 1314 bytes
SHA-256: da3bb44655d07e07f04ce3d62ee3f9dd6f5a4d3ae9d1a6a603591568f56d0196
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00_Quxj.exe ole-package-payload OOXML ppt/embeddings/oleObject1.bin Ole10Native payload: display_name=Quxj.exe; full_path=Quxj.exe; temp_path=; def_file= 1209 bytes
SHA-256: b2974b739234a161e1dfa7a83268d2a4cafe5c23276fd137477aa5045b98eee0