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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4af4afcc11cb6636…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

151.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-10-27
MD5: 024966bd3e04536f55973d604122c722 SHA-1: 27cd2ece0f5753539e613ba6692dc68ff41b904a SHA-256: 4af4afcc11cb6636af8ec1119fe317ad7d23e2e6e9087070a11cd55eefd2ed69
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates exploitation of a known Microsoft Office vulnerability. The presence of an OLE object containing an Equation Editor payload strongly suggests this exploit is used for initial execution. No document body text was available for further analysis, but the exploit itself is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

Heuristics 2

  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
42631d3ca9eb5141eb2d2fb6c21bde6e910bcdb58ef63fc9c17842dd920773de
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD01BB75CA/OLE10naTIVe 1508 bytes