Malicious Office (OOXML) / .DOCX — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ae6cf2d09327827…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOCX

14.7 KB Created: 2024-12-13 04:12:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 15.0000
MD5: 5a33bcadb199a553dd6ee2bdbdec4eea SHA-1: 0f318222204f14982f1579aac204812a253ea49d SHA-256: 8ae6cf2d0932782784084ff0e792a85146d5073115556e8d05a225e635ec96fa
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a DOCX file that leverages two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2017-8759 and CVE-2023-36884, to load an external RTF document from the URL https://defence-lk.military-bd.org/MedicalGrantForm/11d601c6/Profile.rtf. The document body appears to be a form for a medical grant, suggesting a lure to entice users to open the document and trigger the exploit. No scripts were extracted, but the exploitation of known vulnerabilities points to a malicious intent, likely to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 4

  • CVE-2023-36884 — external RTF auto-load relationship critical CVE likely CVE_2023_36884
    Document auto-load relationship references a remote RTF file (https://defence-lk.military-bd.org/MedicalGrantForm/11d601c6/Profile.rtf), matching the stronger Storm-0978/RomCom external-RTF delivery shape. Plain clickable hyperlinks are not enough for this CVE rule.
  • OOXML OLE2Link remote document — CVE-2017-8759 related high CVE related CVE_2017_8759_RELATED
    Document contains an o:OLEObject Type=Link whose external oleObject relationship fetches a remote Office-looking document. That is the OOXML OLE2Link staging shape used by CVE-2017-8759 campaigns when the remote document/WSDL supplies the SOAP moniker payload; the local file alone does not contain the WSDL body needed for an exact match.
  • External OLE object relationship high OOXML_EXTERNAL_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an oleObject relationship whose target is an external HTTP(S) URL. Office resolves this through OLE/object update paths rather than as a normal user-clicked hyperlink.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape

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