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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ca96ed1095c5dc0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

80.2 KB First seen: 2022-06-21
MD5: c4923fa08694fae5350ec88e48a857e2 SHA-1: 37b75977d93ed6d1f2eec96db0f8784b5e4e0cb2 SHA-256: 8ca96ed1095c5dc0d3b4a81c7e654a8d091dbce9439c47a4ac9eca4221b323aa
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The sample is a password-encrypted Office document containing an Equation Editor OLE object. High-severity heuristics indicate this object is an exploit carrier for CVE-2018-0798, a vulnerability in Equation Editor. The encryption and malformed structure suggest an attempt to obfuscate the malicious content, which likely involves delivering a second-stage payload via the exploited OLE object.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • CVE-2018-0798 — anomalous Equation Editor native stream high CVE likely CVE_2018_0798_EQUATION_NATIVE_ANOMALY
    Default-encrypted OOXML contains embedded Equation Editor data with anomalous native stream bytes consistent with a CVE-2018-0798-style exploit. This is treated as likely CVE evidence because the Equation object is malformed and payload-like.
  • Encrypted Office package with CFB FAT corruption critical OLE_ENCRYPTED_AND_MALFORMED
    Encrypted-package shape co-occurs with FAT-chain corruption — the documented combined evasion form.
  • 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.

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