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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d606e6794245736…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

1.40 MB
MD5: db3df8b62eb38c897519e028ae913766 SHA-1: c68b369981ec4ef973805178f0ad931be5d67fcb SHA-256: 4d606e6794245736c4d48f1e7faf4aa3fa9bc5325174d3108ba9995a3fc76ca2
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The file is an OOXML document that is encrypted with a default password and contains embedded OLE objects, specifically identified as an Equation Editor exploit carrier. This strongly suggests it's designed to exploit a known vulnerability in the Equation Editor component to execute a payload. No specific IOCs like URLs or hashes were extracted, but the attack pattern is clear.

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.
  • 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.