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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45fa3909ecd8bab7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

885.0 KB First seen: 2023-08-28
MD5: 107819d3b33fec0b2f0736dbcabbf820 SHA-1: 7437dba09ed2c4a34b637fbc0244960207f58d95 SHA-256: 45fa3909ecd8bab73e2ad9261f2168c3740becb9c588d4afb42588a5e03fcdbd
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates the exploitation of a vulnerability in the Equation Editor component of Microsoft Office. This vulnerability is known to be used for arbitrary code execution, typically to download and run a secondary payload. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

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.
  • x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP ESI) high SC_GETPC_CALL
    x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP ESI)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
60fe7b331f6a6e773dbf729154a48b7a8cec545961b40ce23366dd0037cf4c30
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: ole10native 896577 bytes