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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97e1df275bfe4fbe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

890.0 KB First seen: 2023-08-28
MD5: bf670f096395a9f6596233ba8aaf6a44 SHA-1: 400d068c0f9653588ddb59bf14b211bc9b8a8bed SHA-256: 97e1df275bfe4fbec6c493d63629f1746ace9e372c164ac08e55dcd061df53ac
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates the exploitation of a known vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This technique is commonly used to execute arbitrary code from a malicious document. The embedded OLE object likely contains the exploit and second-stage payload.

Heuristics 2

  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
99377e030265d2973e3f4faea8ec7b78a4881230b7a6ae9678c475589fd9406a
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: OLE10NaTiVE 902136 bytes