Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25f669edfde10a6e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

62.6 KB Created: 2018-09-09 12:27:30 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300 First seen: 2019-05-16
MD5: 3680d33c9073a8bad5c8d27db4bfd83e SHA-1: a5b1456dd4dce44f6ce48b3552f933e555aa8617 SHA-256: 25f669edfde10a6e90dc2c964cbe22838ac048cf7aa8ace2979139160320d5a7
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is an Office document containing an embedded Equation Editor OLE object that exploits the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability. The document body contains a lure to 'ENABLE EDITING ABOVE' to bypass security measures. This exploit is commonly used to deliver a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882
    Equation Editor MTEF contains an overlong FONT typeface field, the vulnerable copy primitive for CVE-2017-11882. This is stronger evidence than the Equation Editor CLSID alone because it identifies the malformed record that drives code execution in EQNEDT32.EXE.
  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Embedded OLE object xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin contains the Equation Editor CLSID, the legacy component exploited by CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802, and CVE-2018-0798.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 4096 bytes
SHA-256: 6411a96cb4512b53dee9db759efd1f749db4790c6db9104bcbbeadb8b50f2436
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely