Malicious Office (OOXML) / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7634f77d6ef2b22…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOC

10.8 KB Created: 2022-05-30 06:30:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2022-06-18
MD5: 437dbad817d764c5bee71fa146d8ee71 SHA-1: 3ecec36d23368b96dd972cb83088996bb1628816 SHA-256: b7634f77d6ef2b22966ba4033ca710f543356a21d30191fb056fa66834b753ac
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a malicious Office document that leverages CVE-2021-40444 to load an external exploit from the URL http://259f-88-231-63-13.eu.ngrok.io:80/exploit.html. This exploit likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file.

Heuristics 4

  • External OLEObject gadget — CVE-2021-40444 critical CVE exact CVE_2021_40444
    External relationship to mhtml:http://259f-88-231-63-13.eu.ngrok.io:80/exploit.html!x-usc:http://259f-88- — exploitable external OLEObject gadget pattern for CVE-2021-40444
  • ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2021_40444-9891528-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2021_40444-9891528-0
  • External relationship high OOXML_EXTERNAL_REL
    External target in word/_rels/document.xml.rels: mhtml:http://259f-88-231-63-13.eu.ngrok.io:80/exploit.html!x-usc:http://259f-88-231-63-13.eu.ngrok.io:80/exploit.html
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/inkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3dIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cidIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://259f-88-231-63-13.eu.ngrok.io:80/exploit.html!x-usc:http://259f-88-OOXML external relationship
    • http://259f-88-231-63-13.eu.ngrok.io:80/exploit.html!x-usc:http://259f-88-231-63-13.eu.ngrok.io:80/exploit.htmlOOXML external relationship

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