Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ad95434658288ec…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

264.0 KB Created: 2017-07-30 02:35:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2017-08-08
MD5: cd45b80b03aa0e57f929c653d8b57ecc SHA-1: fd69f15da90090daf328d2cbac996e49ec15f920 SHA-256: 6ad95434658288ec849cc783d4483f40a96370a8445e7eff6f11466c00b29b57
442 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a Microsoft Word document that contains a lure suggesting it needs conversion, likely to trick the user into executing an embedded PE executable. Heuristics indicate the exploitation of CVE-2007-3899 and the presence of an embedded executable, which is a common dropper technique. The embedded executable is the primary payload, and the document itself acts as a lure to facilitate its execution.

Heuristics 10

  • CVE-2007-3899 — Microsoft Word malformed string memory corruption critical CVE likely CVE_2007_3899
    Word OLE document has the MS07-060 malformed-string exploit shape: a Word 97-family FIB points to a malformed DOP/string-table region with an abnormal INT_MAX run, inflated text counters, and exploit payload or Mdropper.Z campaign evidence.
  • OLE with Ole10Native — possible CVE-2026-21514 exploitation high CVE likely CVE_2026_21514
    Document contains a Word OLE object with Ole10Native plus executable, PE, or risky remote-link indicators. CVE-2026-21514 exploits OLE metadata validation; this stronger structure is treated as likely exploitation.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6334497-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6334497-0
  • Embedded PE executable critical OLE_EMBEDDED_EXE
    MZ/PE header found inside document — possible embedded executable
  • Ole10Native package drops an auto-executable payload critical OFFICE_PACKAGE_RISKY_FILE
    OLE Package displayName or fullPath ends in a directly auto-executable extension (a runnable binary or a script the default shell host runs on double-click). Embedding such a payload inside an Office document has no benign authoring use — it is a malware-delivery dropper.
  • Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXEC
    Reference to ShellExecute API
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API
  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_000036b5.exe embedded-pe Office MZ+PE at offset 0x36B5 256331 bytes
SHA-256: 150d3e2e63ac85790ad1dd466a95313b5c8a2b173ce4ce7664fccbfe6ccc001d
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.52, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
ole10native_00.bin ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: ObjectPool/_1562890885/Ole10Native 252360 bytes
SHA-256: c31b4b4c295d57086539f28ffba9ccecc06b19e535dd69798d670d3eeeaa4787
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.57, consistent with packed or encrypted content.