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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fe923d325358430…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

930.5 KB First seen: 2022-10-05
MD5: fd2cd575cbbd6f005175a1061cf53937 SHA-1: 9ae18ae8b5d1a02a1b7cf2f8e3d4a531f2cccf6a SHA-256: 7fe923d32535843054f2b0a6d95e1964a9c7ac50925549b5e6e34af23d83e083
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample contains an embedded Equation Editor OLE object that is known to exploit CVE-2017-11882. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when the object is loaded. The embedded ole10native artifact likely contains the second-stage payload. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

Heuristics 2

  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
e592889ad843131483f86244999a69ce8993f30dde2484a87719a6d90e802ffa
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: ole10naTIVE 942689 bytes