Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba0167a2fe5c9abe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

729.9 KB Created: 2019-05-23 22:16:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 15.0000 First seen: 2020-07-24
MD5: c9e0c9c97395e3f9dc6d73b8ebafbb03 SHA-1: 51147bc57abdfb5324743325d0372370b50b0016 SHA-256: ba0167a2fe5c9abec7fc9aa925ca1bdc3eba62e8d403c9df203777da1bab73b4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample contains an embedded OLE object that acts as a script dropper, designed to download and execute a payload from a remote URL. The heuristic 'OFFICE_PACKAGE_SCRIPT_DROPPER' indicates the payload is a download-and-execute script, and 'OFFICE_PACKAGE_RISKY_FILE' confirms it drops an executable. The embedded URL 'https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/' is the primary indicator for the downloaded content.

Heuristics 6

  • Ole10Native package payload is a download-and-execute script critical OFFICE_PACKAGE_SCRIPT_DROPPER
    The OLE Package's embedded payload contains a script that hosts a shell (PowerShell/WScript/mshta), fetches a remote resource, and executes it — a download-and-run dropper. Embedding such a script inside an Office document via the Object Packager is a direct user-execution delivery technique (MITRE T1204.002), not a benign attachment.
  • Ole10Native package drops an auto-executable payload critical OFFICE_PACKAGE_RISKY_FILE
    OLE Package displayName or fullPath ends in a directly auto-executable extension (a runnable binary or a script the default shell host runs on double-click). Embedding such a payload inside an Office document has no benign authoring use — it is a malware-delivery dropper.
  • 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.
  • Payload URL recovered from embedded OLE object (11 URLs) info OOXML_EMBEDDED_OBJECT_URL
    An embedded OLE object (xl/word/ppt embeddings) carries a next-stage download URL in its Ole10Native/Package stream — stored literally (incl. UTF-16) or base64-encoded — which the package-level URL sweep does not see. Surfaced as an IOC; self-validating (only real payload hosts).
  • 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://ocsp.comodoca.com0 In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • https://secure.comodo.net/CPS0CIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://www.usertrust.com1In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ocsp.usertrust.com0In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvasIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In 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/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)
    • https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/Embedded OLE package script
    • http://crl.comodoca.com/COMODORSACertificationAuthority.crl0qIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://crt.comodoca.com/COMODORSAAddTrustCA.crt0$In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://crl.comodoca.com/COMODORSACodeSigningCA.crl0tIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://crt.comodoca.com/COMODORSACodeSigningCA.crt0$In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://crl.usertrust.com/UTN-USERFirst-Object.crl05In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/0In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettingsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 1185280 bytes
SHA-256: 2f123978648f26b86d8b4b67d9665d3aec4d82f46e8dcb7cc72a915467ad85d8
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_PEB_ACCESS_X64, SC_STR_SHELLEXEC, SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: ShellExecuteA, CreateProcessA, ExitProcess, CreateFileW, CreateThread, GetProcAddress
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin ole-package OOXML word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin Ole10Native stream: Ole10Native 1173318 bytes
SHA-256: 2352e91bab58744af98116da8ebe9c876973e863b01a9959fb14f4d9634bd939
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_PEB_ACCESS_X64, SC_STR_SHELLEXEC, SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: ShellExecuteA, CreateProcessA, ExitProcess, CreateFileW, CreateThread, GetProcAddress
emf_00.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image1.emf 5652 bytes
SHA-256: 699bc1e6b812daf3ac35a61b4675d795253eb40e1ef7b304a7aa6a4411d0ea3e