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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5db08800c2d64d08…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

209.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-07-05
MD5: 2b72802be4ed989dc5a56999b5a5a5e4 SHA-1: 2db7f8d3084459073d59b221771764f96d76c667 SHA-256: 5db08800c2d64d085d4c7175e35260a7ca365cdee347566e3dc9c1d01bf69b4a
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.005 PowerShell

The sample is an Excel file containing an embedded Equation Editor object that exploits CVE-2017-11882. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when the object is processed. No VBA macros were found to be executable, and the document body is empty, indicating the exploit is delivered directly via the OLE object.

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
1cc663ac4ca033bf0f319beae1b83e2ca0d849cb1adaaddc8040f28a383901e2		 ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD0000CD21/ole10NATIvE 1832 bytes

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