Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 817eb770fd3b282d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

445.3 KB Created: 2007-08-13 02:12:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-11-20
MD5: 504190c419a5af8fd0b0a40bc9df8e27 SHA-1: 883427f062994b02763112337ae3aaa19e51ac38 SHA-256: 817eb770fd3b282d376da8b097e6ca46cf3acedb97c1110129f2d35a7afa4c99
700 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

This Office document contains critical findings indicating the exploitation of CVE-2007-3899 and CVE-2008-2244, which are used to embed and execute a PE file. The presence of CreateProcess, VirtualProtect, LoadLibrary, and CreateRemoteThread API calls further suggests malicious execution. The document body content appears to be unrelated news, likely a lure to distract from the malicious payload.

Heuristics 14

  • CVE-2007-3899 — Microsoft Word malformed string memory corruption critical CVE likely CVE_2007_3899
    Word OLE document has the MS07-060 malformed-string exploit shape: a Word 97-family FIB points to a malformed DOP/string-table region with an abnormal INT_MAX run, inflated text counters, and exploit payload or Mdropper.Z campaign evidence.
  • CVE-2008-2244 — Microsoft Word record-parsing payload critical CVE likely CVE_2008_2244
    Word OLE document has normal small WordDocument/table streams, a large unallocated OLE slack region, and an executable or resolver shellcode payload in that slack. This is the static shape of the MS08-042 Word record-parsing exploit family tracked as CVE-2008-2244.
  • ClamAV: Win.Malware.Razy-9886340-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Malware.Razy-9886340-0
  • Reference to CreateRemoteThread API critical SC_STR_CREATEREMOTETHREAD
    Reference to CreateRemoteThread API
  • Embedded PE executable critical OLE_EMBEDDED_EXE
    MZ/PE header found inside document — possible embedded executable
  • Embedded Office document has suspicious static findings critical EMBEDDED_OFFICE_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A CFB/OLE Office document was found inside another file type and its carved contents matched Office exploit or payload heuristics. This catches wrapped exploit documents where the top-level file routes to a PE, archive, or generic scanner instead of Office.
  • x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EDX) high SC_GETPC_CALL
    x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EDX)
    Disassembly
    Attempted x86 opcode disassembly
    0002CC72  e800000000        call 0x2cc77
    0002CC77  5a                pop edx
    0002CC78  ffc2              inc edx
    0002CC7A  0fc0c1            xadd cl, al
    0002CC7D  e800000000        call 0x2cc82
    0002CC82  5a                pop edx
    0002CC83  f7d2              not edx
    0002CC85  0fafd7            imul edx, edi
    0002CC88  0fbeca            movsx ecx, dl
    0002CC8B  d1f2              sal edx, 1
    0002CC8D  0fafd1            imul edx, ecx
    0002CC90  f6d8              neg al
    0002CC92  bab983e049        mov edx, 0x49e083b9
    0002CC97  69c88060c309      imul ecx, eax, 0x9c36080
    0002CC9D  8d15d1abaefa      lea edx, [0xfaaeabd1]
    0002CCA3  85ce              test esi, ecx
    0002CCA5  eb07              jmp 0x2ccae
    0002CCA7  21ca              and edx, ecx
    0002CCA9  17                pop ss
    0002CCAA  98                cwde
    0002CCAB  1db6b3e800        sbb eax, 0xe8b3b6
    0002CCB0  0000              add byte ptr [eax], al
    0002CCB2  005a85            add byte ptr [edx - 0x7b], bl
    0002CCB5  ce                into
    0002CCB6  86c1              xchg cl, al
    0002CCB8  0fc1d0            xadd eax, edx
    0002CCBB  2cc3              sub al, 0xc3
    0002CCBD  31fa              xor edx, edi
    0002CCBF  8ac2              mov al, dl
    0002CCC1  0fafd7            imul edx, edi
    0002CCC4  f6c6b3            test dh, 0xb3
    0002CCC7  e800000000        call 0x2cccc
    0002CCCC  5a                pop edx
    0002CCCD  c3                ret
    0002CCCE  0000              add byte ptr [eax], al
    0002CCD0  0000              add byte ptr [eax], al
  • Reference to CreateProcess API high SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS
    Reference to CreateProcess API
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 456,008 bytes but its declared streams total only 18,208 bytes — 437,800 bytes (96%) 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).
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • Reference to VirtualProtect API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALPROTECT
    Reference to VirtualProtect API
  • 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
embedded_office_0002b96f.exe embedded-pe Office MZ+PE at offset 0x2B96F 277465 bytes
SHA-256: 307196c393c81280511467b11f63ad1ea8b725408e30b68ff56c3c6192d6c104
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Malware.Razy-9886340-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL, SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS, SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: CreateProcessA, CreateFileA, CreateRemoteThread, GetProcAddress, LoadLibraryA, VirtualProtect
embedded_office_off0000560d.ole embedded-office Embedded OLE/CFB Office body inside ole container at offset 0x560D 433979 bytes
SHA-256: 1d304d23359a49cc53578439878b5fd9762a5b3135cecf9630b0bec1db0dce6f
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Malware.Razy-9886340-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL, SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS, SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: CreateProcessA, CreateFileA, CreateRemoteThread, GetProcAddress, LoadLibraryA, VirtualProtect