Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac6d847c9df3da6e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

634.2 KB Created: 2019-11-27 09:20:57 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000 First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: d719229347cd7c6ae54a1d868baa8641 SHA-1: 75103ae2513f9e7877167f58de9e60a697b3c978 SHA-256: ac6d847c9df3da6ec9b98e20351e75b6d088a5ae494dcd23e39e57192d65f9e2
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an Excel document containing an embedded OLE object, identified as an Equation Editor object. This object exhibits anomalies in its Ole10Native stream size and entropy, strongly suggesting it contains a malicious payload. The embedded object is likely exploited to execute arbitrary code, a common technique for delivering malware via Office documents.

Heuristics 4

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Embedded OLE object xl/embeddings/pcW.HRjn contains the Equation Editor CLSID, the legacy component exploited by CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802, and CVE-2018-0798.
  • Equation Editor object carries payload-like Ole10Native stream high OLE_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE_PAYLOAD_ANOMALY
    Embedded OLE object declares the Equation Editor CLSID but stores a large high-entropy Ole10Native stream with malformed package sizing. This is an exploit-shaped Equation/OLE payload container seen in malicious OOXML samples. It is not assigned to a specific CVE unless the MTEF/Equation Native primitive also matches.
  • 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/pcW.HRjn 937984 bytes
SHA-256: 19252ab72e950c7ea6f973aa64a2312a19aa8c829d7d91b9ae24c1fba59ae567
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/pcW.HRjn Ole10Native stream: OlE10NATiVE 928100 bytes
SHA-256: fa89fb8cdb56c005856c039539e8e765aaaaad16eec7738a52423ed67cc58c56
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL