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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59c93bbabd06cfc5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

132.0 KB First seen: 2022-04-21
MD5: f70b556d37f240c248b695e73aa67022 SHA-1: 138dc7f7076b600b600084c746a661c0ec4b2bb6 SHA-256: 59c93bbabd06cfc523f037c26c2f3f393983bb35eb242cb11a19a98006f1b557
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1559 Component Object Model Hijacking T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking: Component Object Model Hijacking T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The file is a password-encrypted Office document containing OLE objects, specifically identified as an Equation Editor object. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of an exploit carrier and an anomaly in the Equation Editor's native stream, strongly suggesting exploitation of CVE-2018-0798. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • CVE-2018-0798 — anomalous Equation Editor native stream high CVE likely CVE_2018_0798_EQUATION_NATIVE_ANOMALY
    Default-encrypted OOXML contains embedded Equation Editor data with anomalous native stream bytes consistent with a CVE-2018-0798-style exploit. This is treated as likely CVE evidence because the Equation object is malformed and payload-like.
  • 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.
  • Office document is password-encrypted medium OFFICE_ENCRYPTED_PACKAGE
    OLE container holds MS-OFFCRYPTO encrypted package (Standard Encryption (Office 2007, AES)).
  • 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.

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