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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5255b77da56c7e43…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

951.5 KB First seen: 2022-10-24
MD5: 7fb6d77663518db1a7615c186f3dec9e SHA-1: 10c00eb0eb3800107ea2e44166df910da40332fd SHA-256: 5255b77da56c7e4303ad5030c84f49f6ae474d8a94a7b9720c079c305f7541f6
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains an embedded Equation Editor OLE object that is known to be vulnerable to CVE-2017-11882. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' suggests the document may be instructing the user to open a password-protected archive, likely containing the actual payload. The embedded ole10native artifact is the payload delivered by the exploit.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
8a29e274da7ca3d14146953421fda22688e7412d4bcc99ee65f2ed4a72295c16
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: Ole10nATiVE 964136 bytes