Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1c6b710094fd03c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

13.6 KB First seen: 2019-05-16
MD5: cdf4b7611ef4bea0f6db72447dbed690 SHA-1: d57a5d06b44126a3a5d6212d2f3a5716c35fc23f SHA-256: a1c6b710094fd03c537112de1a7ff0fd52cdda53362c26db75809c96715fdcc2
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is an OOXML file containing an embedded OLE object, specifically identified as an Equation Editor object. Heuristics indicate this object is anomalous and exploits CVE-2018-0798, a vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor, to achieve code execution. The embedded object likely contains shellcode, suggesting the document is intended to deliver a malicious payload upon opening.

Heuristics 4

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    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
    Embedded Equation Editor OLE data contains anomalous native stream bytes consistent with a CVE-2018-0798-style Equation Editor exploit. This is treated as likely CVE evidence because the Equation object is malformed and payload-like, but it does not match the exact public matrix-overflow byte signature.
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 4096 bytes
SHA-256: a1ee1a51d3ad84e0665b85425cbdc880ab804a602324a49eb5ba7dbd266de546
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin ole-package OOXML xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin Ole10Native stream: Ole10nAtiVe 1766 bytes
SHA-256: c8180a8fe6b62fe4952c3a2f115ce71866285db91e12d92520df6ca7a9c71567
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL