Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33287a43454289c0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

616.5 KB Created: 2007-08-13 02:12:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2012-07-12
MD5: 23b9acbea0c5f0fc13a82ba8ea10b0fe SHA-1: fbea7880fc7fa2d301644a468701e9e5c8c000f2 SHA-256: 33287a43454289c008a93ef5e9be11ff15968cf1d2a82533645ff9836ecde7cb
560 Risk Score

Heuristics 12

  • CVE-2007-3899 — Microsoft Word malformed string memory corruption critical CVE likely CVE_2007_3899
    Word OLE document has the MS07-060 malformed-string exploit shape: a Word 97-family FIB points to a malformed DOP/string-table region with an abnormal INT_MAX run, inflated text counters, and exploit payload or Mdropper.Z campaign evidence.
  • CVE-2008-2244 — Microsoft Word record-parsing payload (in carved embedded Office document) critical CVE likely CVE_2008_2244
    This finding applies to a carved embedded Office document found at a nonzero offset inside the submitted file, not directly to the top-level document. Word OLE document has normal small WordDocument/table streams, a large unallocated OLE slack region, and an executable or resolver shellcode payload in that slack. This is the static shape of the MS08-042 Word record-parsing exploit family tracked as CVE-2008-2244.
  • Reference to CreateRemoteThread API critical SC_STR_CREATEREMOTETHREAD
    Reference to CreateRemoteThread API
  • Embedded PE executable critical OLE_EMBEDDED_EXE
    MZ/PE header found inside document — possible embedded executable
  • Embedded Office document has suspicious static findings critical EMBEDDED_OFFICE_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A CFB/OLE Office document was found inside another file type and its carved contents matched Office exploit or payload heuristics. This catches wrapped exploit documents where the top-level file routes to a PE, archive, or generic scanner instead of Office.
  • NOP sled detected high SC_NOP_SLED
    Found 20+ consecutive 0x90 bytes
    Disassembly hidden — these bytes score as degenerate, not coherent x86 code (single mnemonic 'nop' is 100% of instructions — a sled or padding/filler run, not program logic).
  • x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EAX) high SC_GETPC_CALL
    x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EAX)
    Disassembly hidden — these bytes score as degenerate, not coherent x86 code (single mnemonic 'add' is 71% of instructions — a sled or padding/filler run, not program logic).
  • Reference to CreateProcess API high SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS
    Reference to CreateProcess API
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 631,251 bytes but its declared streams total only 18,208 bytes — 613,043 bytes (97%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_0002b96f.exe embedded-pe Office MZ+PE at offset 0x2B96F 452708 bytes
SHA-256: c823cd2bd4fd4000e3585ccebc98812746364c17e635c91fc77e3809409066f9
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL, SC_STR_CREATEREMOTETHREAD, SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: CreateRemoteThread, GetProcAddress, LoadLibraryA, CreateProcessW
embedded_office_off0000560d.ole embedded-office Embedded OLE/CFB Office body inside ole container at offset 0x560D 609222 bytes
SHA-256: 881fbbfedbb61980b9dcfbd418547153f173716c7484a208c8b1b67ec07283ff
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL, SC_STR_CREATEREMOTETHREAD, SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: CreateRemoteThread, GetProcAddress, LoadLibraryA, CreateProcessW