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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa800b27b3afb0ee…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

813.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-11-28
MD5: 5232ce0c0be5464c2b8798dec6189316 SHA-1: 4a10e8fec837c4959cc01a97a83d1fe62e5a45c2 SHA-256: aa800b27b3afb0ee91b9800f73a01a0c26156ee010032c8df84b415393804d14
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates the exploitation of a known vulnerability within the Equation Editor OLE object. The presence of VBA macros, though not executable, suggests a potential for further malicious activity. The file's structure and the specific OLE object point towards a classic exploit delivery mechanism.

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
1d3b71b8c6234aace88f31f6e674b07383e015a2e68993dcd4fc2526aa470fe5		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2412 bytes
ole10native_00.bin
5b52d7dad1d11c4bf845a97632d1fe91f714214ef1703a6f70d258c576579ac1		 ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD013158BB/oLe10nAtive 1666 bytes

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