Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 734d07f8d107663d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

13.6 KB First seen: 2019-04-18
MD5: 41a1f53c28a6ab00319cbb2e0eb13283 SHA-1: c83ecd097cd8cd56cd71224441b947d66bec064e SHA-256: 734d07f8d107663d801693de53ff3dbbf7f3f53e3b8fc13f967e65f175f1881c
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an OOXML file containing an embedded OLE object, specifically identified as an Equation Editor object. Heuristics indicate this object is anomalous and exploits CVE-2018-0798, a vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor, to achieve code execution. The embedded object likely contains shellcode, suggesting the document is intended to deliver a malicious payload upon opening.

Heuristics 4

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Embedded OLE object xl/EmBEddings/OlEOBjEct1.bin contains the Equation Editor CLSID, the legacy component exploited by CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802, and CVE-2018-0798.
  • CVE-2018-0798 — anomalous Equation Editor native stream high CVE likely CVE_2018_0798_EQUATION_NATIVE_ANOMALY
    Embedded Equation Editor OLE data contains anomalous native stream bytes consistent with a CVE-2018-0798-style Equation Editor exploit. This is treated as likely CVE evidence because the Equation object is malformed and payload-like, but it does not match the exact public matrix-overflow byte signature.
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: xl/EmBEddings/OlEOBjEct1.bin 4096 bytes
SHA-256: f4f8b14ebccf1d490a981fc3d9d7079d83acc04c40d67760bfd0c414326517fb
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin ole-package OOXML xl/EmBEddings/OlEOBjEct1.bin Ole10Native stream: Ole10NaTIve 1668 bytes
SHA-256: 500d528fd72100093070c193f1f7854bcdd6197ba19b11456043cecf0a8f5e4c
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL