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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c321c5bdc82d554…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

598.0 KB
MD5: 557d7d397e7566fde718dd615add8e67 SHA-1: 9ee2b02b3bc95d1ecaf9699198474e63c7b6d367 SHA-256: 3c321c5bdc82d554ea695bb5927a9c23ffa7dd9301fabc68981ad4e0ac956a51
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The file is an encrypted Office document that contains an Equation Editor OLE object, a known exploit carrier. The heuristics indicate that this object is likely used to exploit a vulnerability, leading to the execution of malicious code. No document body or scripts were extractable due to encryption, but the presence of the Equation Editor OLE object strongly suggests an exploitation attempt.

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.