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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e199d672b291f25…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

1.89 MB
MD5: 94f5c768d417e59a98a6fa4f9c6d62a5 SHA-1: 074508c8aea7d9222aa20297b61daf79b37b510c SHA-256: 3e199d672b291f2568ae212971cf1b552b6a9218ec10d5185e878b48c98452f6
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an encrypted Office document that contains an Equation Editor OLE object. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of CVE-2018-0798, a vulnerability associated with Equation Editor. The OLE object's native stream exhibits anomalies suggesting it carries a malicious payload, likely delivered through a drive-by download or user execution of the malicious file.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • CVE-2018-0798 — anomalous Equation Editor native stream high CVE likely CVE_2018_0798_EQUATION_NATIVE_ANOMALY
    Default-encrypted OOXML contains embedded Equation Editor data with anomalous native stream bytes consistent with a CVE-2018-0798-style exploit. This is treated as likely CVE evidence because the Equation object is malformed and payload-like.
  • 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.
  • Equation Editor object carries payload-like Ole10Native stream high OLE_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE_PAYLOAD_ANOMALY
    Default-encrypted OOXML embedded OLE object declares the Equation Editor CLSID but stores a large high-entropy Ole10Native stream with malformed package sizing. This is exploit-shaped Equation/OLE payload evidence.
  • 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.

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