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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 816e6b709244b289…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

175.0 KB Created: 2001-12-14 14:26:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 9.0
MD5: ec0792b56f58e4f508220d11a9ad4667 SHA-1: a4e1f590bb227eb53d6acc93038931876ebea95f SHA-256: 816e6b709244b2893069fbcb835a3c41a199b556b81a65f3264a1d550f91946f
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a malicious Microsoft Word document exploiting CVE-2006-6456, a vulnerability related to malformed table SPRMs. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of CreateProcess API references and an appended executable-looking payload further supports this. No specific family could be identified.

Heuristics 4

  • CVE-2006-6456 — Microsoft Word malformed table SPRM critical CVE exact CVE_2006_6456
    WordDocument contains a malformed table border-color SPRM in the CVE-2006-6456 shape: a valid table-SPRM cluster is followed by an invalid high-byte 0xFF SPRM where Word expects a normal sprmTBrc*Cv record. Vulnerable Word 2000/2002/2003 parsers corrupt memory while handling this malformed data structure.
  • Reference to CreateProcess API high SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS
    Reference to CreateProcess API
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 179,200 bytes but its declared streams total only 94,801 bytes — 84,399 bytes (47%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • OLE file has appended executable-looking payload bytes high OLE_APPENDED_PAYLOAD
    OLE compound file contains a large high-entropy region beyond the declared major streams and that region includes shellcode, PE, or loader API markers. This is a payload-carrier signal, not a specific CVE attribution by itself.