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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82380582fc29efd1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

93.5 KB First seen: 2022-05-17
MD5: 54adfcfd9cb059589ac2c3a069cfd760 SHA-1: a69099e3e637b15f963fdfb62fa10ec299c0e01b SHA-256: 82380582fc29efd16822628b0ce95a1437da2f54ef3a4cb13607b75e9c4c591d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is an encrypted Office document, indicated by the 'OFFICE_ENCRYPTED_PACKAGE' and 'OFFICE_DEFAULT_PASSWORD_ENCRYPTED_OOXML' heuristics. The presence of an 'Equation Editor OLE object' and 'OOXML_ENCRYPTED_EXPLOIT_CARRIER_SHAPE' strongly suggests it's designed to exploit a vulnerability within the Equation Editor component, likely leading to client execution. No specific family could be identified due to the encryption and lack of extractable content.

Heuristics 4

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Default-encrypted OOXML 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.
  • Default-encrypted OOXML exploit carrier layout high OOXML_ENCRYPTED_EXPLOIT_CARRIER_SHAPE
    Default-password encrypted OOXML package contains embedded OLE object parts and additional activation/decoy parts. This layout is common in malicious Excel exploit delivery and requires inspecting the decrypted package.
  • Office document is password-encrypted medium OFFICE_ENCRYPTED_PACKAGE
    OLE container holds MS-OFFCRYPTO encrypted package (Standard Encryption (Office 2007, AES)).
  • Office OOXML encrypted with default VelvetSweatshop password medium OFFICE_DEFAULT_PASSWORD_ENCRYPTED_OOXML
    OLE EncryptedPackage decrypts with Excel's built-in VelvetSweatshop password. Office opens this transparently, and malware uses it to hide OOXML exploit parts from scanners that only inspect the outer OLE container.