Formbook — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e362cc53cfb4e04…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

446.8 KB
MD5: 93e73ece6b55b5445c0f89c9debb0aca SHA-1: b7566ab0ee295049b2801d3d8443f3f58bf08e83 SHA-256: 2e362cc53cfb4e04d0a044e896233a71ab8e521f0248fb7edbdb868f4228a070
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Formbook · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is a password-encrypted Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Doc.Downloader.Formbook. The presence of an Equation Editor OLE object within an encrypted OOXML exploit carrier strongly suggests exploitation of a vulnerability, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection name directly indicates the Formbook family.

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.
  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Formbook-bc97c1e0c33c3c93-9951465-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Formbook-bc97c1e0c33c3c93-9951465-0
  • 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.