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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31a0c4fd8f06ce77…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

625.0 KB
MD5: 4a313a894778d6a4718b8f5bfd616ac0 SHA-1: e6cedea1cfa4fb196bce58e41dd1ab49b80f5990 SHA-256: 31a0c4fd8f06ce779e762d3f622a3fdba92f96c22741c0da6a35cbf05907af7e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1559 Component Object Model Hijacking T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking: Component Object Model Hijacking

The file is an encrypted Office document, identified as an exploit carrier due to the presence of embedded OLE objects, specifically related to the Equation Editor. This indicates the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability, likely CVE-2017-11882, through the Equation Editor component to execute a malicious payload. No document body or script content was available for further analysis.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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-128)).
  • 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.