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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fce4ab6f45803aa…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

569.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-11-16
MD5: 750bb5a597ec71f996d538e71a8e8843 SHA-1: 168a105609b98161919a1d6d399c5161e9483ee8 SHA-256: 8fce4ab6f45803aa4de7aafe4b184c7467d3cedc4ad057c8d03a1b8b0f8cc435
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.005 PowerShell

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates the file exploits a vulnerability in the Equation Editor. The OLE object itself contains a payload designed to leverage this vulnerability for execution. No VBA macros were found to be executable, suggesting the primary execution vector is the Equation Editor exploit.

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.
  • VBA project contains no executable statements low OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains a VBA project, but extracted modules only contain attributes/options/comments and no executable statements.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes
ole10native_00.bin
de6bdfbe27ea5738e2c444c8695602c889c085a3ecc0fed020256f6616146d12		 ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD000BCDD1/OLe10nAtIvE 1536 bytes

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