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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32e0897d1e735d17…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

2.10 MB First seen: 2026-05-13
MD5: b2f262d1bcc9df8c22dcc212433ec563 SHA-1: 380bf29ccb47736167f2235ad71beae5700dd8aa SHA-256: 32e0897d1e735d174adf13ca23fad840e60597610d0d05140f31c807bf9ccefb
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is an Office file containing an embedded Equation Editor OLE object. Heuristics indicate exploitation of CVE-2017-11882, a vulnerability in the Equation Editor that allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded artifact 'ole10native_00.bin' is likely the payload for this exploit.

Heuristics 3

  • Equation Editor Ole10Native payload — CVE-2017-11882 critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE
    An embedded Microsoft Equation 3.0 object (CLSID 0002CE02-0000-0000-C000-000000000046) carries an Ole10Native packager stream instead of the normal Equation Native/MTEF data. This is the weaponized Equation Editor RCE delivery shape used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 maldocs. The payload (font-record overflow + shellcode) is frequently encrypted and the stream name case-scrambled to evade scanners, but an Equation object holding an Ole10Native stream has no benign use.
  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Contains Equation Editor object — related to CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploitation, but CLSID presence alone is not the malformed MTEF exploit primitive.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: oLE10nAtIVE 2180136 bytes
SHA-256: 52ef0a6b10d87aaa69b7971a73fa46bce1b9023f9bcba5d0494a1152e84a719a
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.