Office (OOXML) malware analysis — malicious · 801ab1d4a5a5af6b

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

596.2 KB Created: 2018-09-09 12:27:30 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300 First seen: 2020-05-25

MD5: b392a5b6db5de2e6744187941d845cac SHA-1: 017fbcda0c00c2950ed21361c730696f5b4f200c SHA-256: 801ab1d4a5a5af6bca58d28a7828ec1c47bbe7df29b630d6c18e1a0f041ee5b7

162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is an OOXML file containing an embedded OLE object, specifically an Equation Editor object. Heuristics indicate this object exploits CVE-2018-0798 via an anomalous native stream, suggesting it's designed to deliver a payload. The document body contains a lure to 'ENABLE EDITING ABOVE FOR CLEARER VIEW OF IMAGE', which is a common tactic to bypass macro security and execute embedded exploits.

Heuristics 6

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.
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
Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE

Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`ooxml_oleobject_00.bin`	ooxml-ole-object	OOXML embedded OLE part: xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin	552960 bytes
SHA-256: `df675e00b260f5416aa8878994b25cf14e9be25ca75445014dd1a854d3e8027e`
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
`ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin`	ole-package	OOXML xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin Ole10Native stream: ole10NATiVE	545861 bytes
SHA-256: `3dcf7838d4f809153ffdfc957d69b529af93df5deeca66cedb87bfb500c20dbd`
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.

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