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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 217f5d5da00e3976…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

395.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-11-09
MD5: 78b516706461655e3356f1b7d5d25934 SHA-1: 8eac83bf6b723d317b04163404f724294077d327 SHA-256: 217f5d5da00e3976f78936f83abb270632b0f24859a5199248c62f4a77ee34b2
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates that the file contains a payload exploiting this known Microsoft Equation Editor vulnerability. The presence of an OLE object containing this exploit strongly suggests the file is designed to deliver a secondary malicious payload upon opening. No VBA macros were found to be executable, but the OLE object itself is 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
7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes
ole10native_00.bin
511750f3283cc4a61c1e3540ded7ca17a43e2fe87124a563f6f5064ac8999846		 ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD01C94387/olE10NAtiVE 1215 bytes

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