Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b9808a5ea1d3140…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

384.3 KB Created: 2007-08-13 02:12:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2015-09-15
MD5: 0f954b509d527b758273ff91ddd41ab0 SHA-1: 375c8f227ff8b8b33164f4408a14aebf74a1c0ec SHA-256: 6b9808a5ea1d3140c987a70b8953fb24801fd0cc8a79a127cd28a30390dbcd1b
582 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious OLE document exploiting known vulnerabilities (CVE-2007-3899, CVE-2008-2244) to embed and execute a PE file. Heuristics indicate the use of VirtualAlloc and LoadLibrary APIs, suggesting dynamic code loading. The document also contains a lure to copy/paste content into a shell, indicating an attempt to trick the user into executing commands. The embedded executable was detected by ClamAV as Win.Malware.Razy-9886340-0.

Heuristics 12

  • 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.
  • CVE-2008-2244 — Microsoft Word record-parsing payload critical CVE likely CVE_2008_2244
    Word OLE document has normal small WordDocument/table streams, a large unallocated OLE slack region, and an executable or resolver shellcode payload in that slack. This is the static shape of the MS08-042 Word record-parsing exploit family tracked as CVE-2008-2244.
  • ClamAV: Win.Malware.Razy-9886340-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Malware.Razy-9886340-0
  • Embedded PE executable critical OLE_EMBEDDED_EXE
    MZ/PE header found inside document — possible embedded executable
  • Embedded Office document has suspicious static findings critical EMBEDDED_OFFICE_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A CFB/OLE Office document was found inside another file type and its carved contents matched Office exploit or payload heuristics. This catches wrapped exploit documents where the top-level file routes to a PE, archive, or generic scanner instead of Office.
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 393,533 bytes but its declared streams total only 18,208 bytes — 375,325 bytes (95%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • OLE file has appended executable-looking payload bytes high OLE_APPENDED_PAYLOAD
    OLE compound file contains a large high-entropy region beyond the declared major streams and that region includes shellcode, PE, or loader API markers. This is a payload-carrier signal, not a specific CVE attribution by itself.
  • Reference to VirtualAlloc API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALALLOC
    Reference to VirtualAlloc API
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://microsoft.com0 In document text (OLE body)
    • http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/CSPCA.crl0HIn document text (OLE body)
    • http://www.microsoft.com/pki/certs/CSPCA.crt0In document text (OLE body)
    • http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/tspca.crl0HIn document text (OLE body)
    • http://www.microsoft.com/pki/certs/tspca.crt0In document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_0003a513.exe embedded-pe Office MZ+PE at offset 0x3A513 154666 bytes
SHA-256: 4b796c5fd041cf9b350850e28f3a603f1f05a9ba9c477788ddd733a27fe7f728
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Malware.Razy-9886340-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_office_off0000560d.ole embedded-office Embedded OLE/CFB Office body inside ole container at offset 0x560D 371504 bytes
SHA-256: 59fe099c47fde5979c314ef2e7915fc82ba42dd437b71e12d38c10d421dcde9e
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Malware.Razy-9886340-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely