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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e30f5323a5b6381…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

77.1 KB First seen: 2022-05-31
MD5: 75cc24bd68054320dc63b9153de694ec SHA-1: 0068b172e958457c9e14237d9d372833828c5e00 SHA-256: 2e30f5323a5b6381d24a78671eb76e980ba36befdbe2b4f6f2407faecaf1fde0
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an encrypted Office XLSX file. High-severity heuristics indicate it is an exploit carrier, specifically leveraging an Equation Editor OLE object. The presence of 'OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR' and 'CVE_2018_0798_EQUATION_NATIVE_ANOMALY' strongly suggests exploitation of CVE-2018-0798. The document's encrypted nature and the anomalous Equation Editor stream point to it being a delivery mechanism for a malicious payload.

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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