Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 708866b5cbe2eeaf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

733.3 KB
MD5: 2262e669c76c3492cedeebc7a3245425 SHA-1: e9db06daada318e909a6a76c0568f1924bd82945 SHA-256: 708866b5cbe2eeafdc05a4dbb12ddc7a0470f5abc80e8bbd5df7159bb5921f38
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an OOXML document containing an embedded OLE object, specifically identified as an Equation Editor. High-severity heuristics indicate that this Equation Editor object carries a payload-like Ole10Native stream with an anomalous header and size discrepancy, strongly suggesting it's designed to exploit a vulnerability and execute malicious code. The document body content appears to be financial data, likely a lure to encourage opening the embedded object.

Heuristics 3

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Embedded OLE object xl/embeddings/1Hd7Brw.5Fm contains the Equation Editor CLSID, the legacy component exploited by CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802, and CVE-2018-0798.
  • Equation Editor object carries payload-like Ole10Native stream high OLE_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE_PAYLOAD_ANOMALY
    Embedded OLE object declares the Equation Editor CLSID but stores a large high-entropy Ole10Native stream with malformed package sizing. This is an exploit-shaped Equation/OLE payload container seen in malicious OOXML samples. It is not assigned to a specific CVE unless the MTEF/Equation Native primitive also matches.
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin
0b8db65172818aec056afca96425bc5d96c014dfd995735405fab3d9986780f5
ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: xl/embeddings/1Hd7Brw.5Fm 998912 bytes
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin
464ca8f0e2298ed50ad665d68059f9b29dd3e29655e4f0ed3f3fe85a770c4928
ole-package OOXML xl/embeddings/1Hd7Brw.5Fm Ole10Native stream: olE10naTivE 988607 bytes