Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · 72daa1089173c543

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

230.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-02-08

MD5: b7d6d9799d2986f398e906969a106e3e SHA-1: 8839bf8281113ab0d411429cdc0a039d8e9dcd98 SHA-256: 72daa1089173c5431e8e1db09c1b4fd86bc7607c0990b254932cdea3a7b6d72d

148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.005 PowerShell

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates the exploitation of a known vulnerability in the Equation Editor OLE object. This technique is commonly used to deliver a second-stage payload. No VBA macros were found to contain executable statements, suggesting the exploit is directly embedded within the OLE object.

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 EDI) high SC_GETPC_CALL

x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EDI)
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	1206 bytes
`ole10native_00.bin` `584188573f57c658393dfb55576d1f059d8c26d0b5b13491872a94ebd0fb66d7`	ole-package	OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD01E0ECD0/ole10NATIVe	1829 bytes

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