Xls.Downloader.94c25b356b5a6cac-9978798-0 — Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87c8c006f56550f0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

920.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-12-06
MD5: 74f90287f96dbedfc57d239f16ba4a7b SHA-1: 09d6714a41fdae094aad163da96bcb6da6d06185 SHA-256: 87c8c006f56550f0036ef93bce6c3f401ff145dcad4a2a348a370baf748d9e4a
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Xls.Downloader.94c25b356b5a6cac-9978798-0 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 User Execution T1204.002 Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates the exploitation of a known vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This is commonly used as a delivery mechanism for malware. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature as a downloader. The file likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.94c25b356b5a6cac-9978798-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.94c25b356b5a6cac-9978798-0

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
0b1956c6a0a79381a4187b7d266386f80f4d2f5e688cb6985e04e6972387b4d1
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD008F2E0D/Ole10Native 1657 bytes