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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4dcf35b288bceed5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

396.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2026-06-04T09:00:00+00:00
MD5: b0e88c457645c63ca7418db73369ee34 SHA-1: c9f603352f7177dfdce33449bcd2d551336978f0 SHA-256: 4dcf35b288bceed5929b4c402105fd05759ff9969fc0aafe3e4210d18f82189c
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates the file contains a payload designed to exploit this specific vulnerability in the Equation Editor. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. No VBA macros were found to be executable, and no document body text was available for analysis.

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.
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes
ole10native_00.bin
5b9ec503b8c1025b667708aec26c8849687b0c02a45befd81c6745c34aca58e1		 ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD001038E2/olE10NATiVe 2129 bytes

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