Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9213977c744e2be…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

9.9 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000 First seen: 2019-01-12
MD5: eb6f140ba069876a78bfbadb4e6db9f8 SHA-1: 6d28e410bb51bc9436556f89860ba10b7b1052ea SHA-256: b9213977c744e2beda0433da08be8978588448c2c8d0f3d9782031c756588bfd
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 4096 bytes
SHA-256: c518d843b3203f00f7dac1a98476fb3d79c80c34f340f78bd5be3f1ab235c11b
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely