Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · 491b96b8fa52b39a

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

184.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-01-23

MD5: 4edaaf2fd10bdecbeb164062cae5f3b0 SHA-1: d9fa25e6f9be6871bfbfcd4f95ef50b47c8f4236 SHA-256: 491b96b8fa52b39adc951d7b38397436fa107a815f6c79c607ed3e7e9dc142a5

110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.005 PowerShell

The sample is an Excel file containing an embedded Equation Editor OLE object. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2017-11882, indicating exploitation of this known vulnerability. The VBA macros are present but contain no executable statements, suggesting the exploit payload is directly within the OLE object. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882 for client-side execution.

Heuristics 4

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.
VBA project contains no executable statements low OLE_VBA_MACROS

Document contains a VBA project, but extracted modules only contain attributes/options/comments and no executable statements.
Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL

One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.

URL http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	1206 bytes
`ole10native_00.bin` `0db6366050e88bce7b9121525a84a91bb1806ef221351a0f124333152ab09dc4`	ole-package	OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD02948C5D/OLE10NAtIVe	1530 bytes

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