Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a88bca800af511c9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

66.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 15.0300 First seen: 2019-09-30
MD5: c79fb1381b1b7183f8f5ecc854f1ed0f SHA-1: 2491d263c9c43264f6870a62b4c8bb1cc91237ec SHA-256: a88bca800af511c98e2094096ab42b31db76fc12e03d3744e293952e44d79fee
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is an OOXML file containing an embedded OLE object, specifically identified as an Equation Editor object. Critical heuristics indicate a successful exploitation of CVE-2017-11882 through a FONT record overflow within this object. This vulnerability is known to allow arbitrary code execution, making it the primary attack vector.

Heuristics 4

  • CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882
    Equation Editor MTEF contains an overlong FONT typeface field, the vulnerable copy primitive for CVE-2017-11882. This is stronger evidence than the Equation Editor CLSID alone because it identifies the malformed record that drives code execution in EQNEDT32.EXE.
  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 4608 bytes
SHA-256: febfceed74893093516496692850184403a64c2aa30f805b85898e1dca6bd605
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely