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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad6030e649d2b26b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

346.3 KB First seen: 2022-04-28
MD5: 3272f2fccc6fc925fc95e8c48b9f417a SHA-1: f0780708208cf226557d7644d7d81a58456e5db7 SHA-256: ad6030e649d2b26b4ec05ddfc8188901ac395f63d6ea10df18bc6f9b7be33d71
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a password-encrypted Excel file. It contains an embedded Equation Editor OLE object, which is a known exploit carrier. Specifically, the 'CVE_2018_0798_EQUATION_NATIVE_ANOMALY' heuristic indicates exploitation of CVE-2018-0798 via an anomalous Equation Editor native stream. The encryption and malformed structure further suggest malicious intent to obscure the exploit payload.

Heuristics 6

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Default-encrypted OOXML 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
    Default-encrypted OOXML contains embedded Equation Editor data with anomalous native stream bytes consistent with a CVE-2018-0798-style exploit. This is treated as likely CVE evidence because the Equation object is malformed and payload-like.
  • Encrypted Office package with CFB FAT corruption critical OLE_ENCRYPTED_AND_MALFORMED
    Encrypted-package shape co-occurs with FAT-chain corruption — the documented combined evasion form.
  • Default-encrypted OOXML exploit carrier layout high OOXML_ENCRYPTED_EXPLOIT_CARRIER_SHAPE
    Default-password encrypted OOXML package contains embedded OLE object parts and additional activation/decoy parts. This layout is common in malicious Excel exploit delivery and requires inspecting the decrypted package.
  • Office document is password-encrypted medium OFFICE_ENCRYPTED_PACKAGE
    OLE container holds MS-OFFCRYPTO encrypted package (Standard Encryption (Office 2007, AES)).
  • Office OOXML encrypted with default VelvetSweatshop password medium OFFICE_DEFAULT_PASSWORD_ENCRYPTED_OOXML
    OLE EncryptedPackage decrypts with Excel's built-in VelvetSweatshop password. Office opens this transparently, and malware uses it to hide OOXML exploit parts from scanners that only inspect the outer OLE container.

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