Xls.Downloader.94c25b356b5a6cac-9978798-0 Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · 2245421c55b49a00

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.43 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-02-13

MD5: d6005c0fba6bd3ba323841900e7d14ae SHA-1: ad23e1210e42e3f9aa7cc7db5ecb12ccd307991c SHA-256: 2245421c55b49a002617de64b4251a6102f0b7d5527675284821edb4e6853ad6

168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Xls.Downloader.94c25b356b5a6cac-9978798-0 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.005 Visual Basic

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates the exploitation of a known vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This vulnerability is commonly used to deliver secondary payloads. The ClamAV detection name further supports this, identifying it as a downloader. No VBA macros were found to contain executable statements, suggesting the exploit is directly embedded within the OLE object.

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.
ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.94c25b356b5a6cac-9978798-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.94c25b356b5a6cac-9978798-0
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	1206 bytes
`ole10native_00.bin` `0286d432dda8e2c6e9f300a032f07f816a452d2ab97e3577c1a08f22ba94ad80`	ole-package	OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD00F0CFFE/Ole10NAtive	1401 bytes

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