Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · 21ba88c289a87d28

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.02 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-02-07

MD5: 24272ec8aed7b3b5c3ef93aa3c7a8754 SHA-1: e89c864996b9e2a36962d76aad0c053f16cab7c7 SHA-256: 21ba88c289a87d289169c9881e8263bd4357b8a4e239a137fe181e816d58e8a5

110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.005 PowerShell

The sample is an Excel file containing an embedded Equation Editor OLE object. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2017-11882, indicating exploitation of this known vulnerability. The VBA macros are present but contain no executable statements, suggesting the exploit payload is delivered via the OLE object itself. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of the Equation Editor vulnerability to achieve code execution.

Heuristics 4

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.
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://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	1206 bytes
`ole10native_00.bin` `37bfb0900da59d42d46f6cb40fe72cf92e9e231925b8b072319e4e786177ab20`	ole-package	OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD018A5B2D/oLe10natiVE	2251 bytes

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.