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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25f7e3c808fd02e5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

225.0 KB First seen: 2022-10-03
MD5: 6fb87626bea5d286d318daf3d2edc9cc SHA-1: bf33fdd43b8a20a2e4750a0faf233718217afb54 SHA-256: 25f7e3c808fd02e59972b8125f8e3e85b72189a3d2237954e85563b766c8b7cf
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1566 Phishing T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is an encrypted Office document, indicated by the 'OFFICE_ENCRYPTED_PACKAGE' and 'OFFICE_DEFAULT_PASSWORD_ENCRYPTED_OOXML' heuristics. The presence of an 'Equation Editor OLE object' and specific anomalies related to CVE-2018-0798 strongly suggest it's an exploit carrier. The 'OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR' and 'CVE_2018_0798_EQUATION_NATIVE_ANOMALY' firings point to the exploitation of a vulnerability within the Equation Editor component of Microsoft Office. The 'OLE_ENCRYPTED_AND_MALFORMED' heuristic further confirms the malicious nature due to package corruption.

Heuristics 6

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Default-encrypted OOXML 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.
  • CVE-2018-0798 — anomalous Equation Editor native stream high CVE likely CVE_2018_0798_EQUATION_NATIVE_ANOMALY
    Default-encrypted OOXML contains embedded Equation Editor data with anomalous native stream bytes consistent with a CVE-2018-0798-style exploit. This is treated as likely CVE evidence because the Equation object is malformed and payload-like.
  • Encrypted Office package with CFB FAT corruption critical OLE_ENCRYPTED_AND_MALFORMED
    Encrypted-package shape co-occurs with FAT-chain corruption — the documented combined evasion form.
  • Default-encrypted OOXML exploit carrier layout high OOXML_ENCRYPTED_EXPLOIT_CARRIER_SHAPE
    Default-password encrypted OOXML package contains embedded OLE object parts and additional activation/decoy parts. This layout is common in malicious Excel exploit delivery and requires inspecting the decrypted package.
  • Office document is password-encrypted medium OFFICE_ENCRYPTED_PACKAGE
    OLE container holds MS-OFFCRYPTO encrypted package (Standard Encryption (Office 2007, AES)).
  • Office OOXML encrypted with default VelvetSweatshop password medium OFFICE_DEFAULT_PASSWORD_ENCRYPTED_OOXML
    OLE EncryptedPackage decrypts with Excel's built-in VelvetSweatshop password. Office opens this transparently, and malware uses it to hide OOXML exploit parts from scanners that only inspect the outer OLE container.

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