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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 938545f7bbe40738…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOCX

23.6 KB Created: 2013-10-31 15:25:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000
MD5: 1d2094ce85d66878ee079185e2761beb SHA-1: 53b31e513d8e23e30b7f133d4504ca7429f0e1fe SHA-256: 938545f7bbe40738908a95da8cdeabb2a11ce2ca36b0f6a74deda9378d380a52
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing via Service

The sample is a Microsoft Office document that leverages the CVE-2021-40444 vulnerability. This exploit is triggered by an external OLEObject relationship pointing to a remote HTML resource. The heuristic firings strongly indicate exploitation of this CVE, leading to the loading of content from http://hidusi.com/e8c76295a5f9acb7/side.html. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient to classify the attack pattern.

Heuristics 4

  • External OLEObject gadget — CVE-2021-40444 critical CVE exact CVE_2021_40444
    External relationship to mhtml:http://hidusi.com/e8c76295a5f9acb7/side.html!x-usc:http://hidusi.com/e8c76 — exploitable external OLEObject gadget pattern for CVE-2021-40444
  • ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2021_40444-9891528-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2021_40444-9891528-0
  • External relationship high OOXML_EXTERNAL_REL
    External target in word/_rels/document.xml.rels: mhtml:http://hidusi.com/e8c76295a5f9acb7/side.html!x-usc:http://hidusi.com/e8c76295a5f9acb7/side.html
  • 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://hidusi.com/e8c76295a5f9acb7/side.html!x-usc:http://hidusi.com/e8c76
    • http://hidusi.com/e8c76295a5f9acb7/side.html!x-usc:http://hidusi.com/e8c76295a5f9acb7/side.html
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartex
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/ink
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3d
    • 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/2016/wordml/cid
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symex
    • 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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