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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d07cc52c1b8336c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

1.01 MB First seen: 2022-06-21
MD5: 21569243b4a4a8fcf5d24cbe051ee959 SHA-1: 9182d7946c9f51011112b41d77fc89b9e476bb91 SHA-256: 6d07cc52c1b8336c9ac5becfe3597210cdef4da4cda21d95277e986db7a2718f
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample contains a critical heuristic indicating the presence of a payload for CVE-2017-11882 within an embedded Equation Editor OLE object. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine, likely as part of a spearphishing attachment delivery chain. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EAX) high SC_GETPC_CALL
    x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EAX)
  • Reference to mshta.exe high SC_STR_MSHTA
    Reference to mshta.exe

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
392dcaa4b42d2cc05e3c3a7788fa1d18e54054ff080b3734c583be0b890478d1
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: oLE10NAtivE 1044230 bytes