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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcfc496df5909200…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

985.5 KB First seen: 2022-07-25
MD5: 35cd1777e398f752b1ab7baeeb459b6d SHA-1: 5750e5c872ffcff9c4f600028f17733c5f074075 SHA-256: bcfc496df59092009d7bb45b6d7edd4fbac9917b7b009e44c2f7e54f584abf0b
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1559.002 Component Object Model and Distributed Component Object Model

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates the exploitation of a known vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This technique is commonly used to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of an OLE object further supports this attack vector.

Heuristics 2

  • Equation Editor Ole10Native payload — CVE-2017-11882 critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE
    An embedded Microsoft Equation 3.0 object (CLSID 0002CE02-0000-0000-C000-000000000046) carries an Ole10Native packager stream instead of the normal Equation Native/MTEF data. This is the weaponized Equation Editor RCE delivery shape used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 maldocs. The payload (font-record overflow + shellcode) is frequently encrypted and the stream name case-scrambled to evade scanners, but an Equation object holding an Ole10Native stream has no benign use.
  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Contains Equation Editor object — related to CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploitation, but CLSID presence alone is not the malformed MTEF exploit primitive.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
f14c99f7d2d6450f738c982d718e43cb80cf704c8ce6bdd5340f5ccdcfb0f5b0
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: OLE10NativE 998619 bytes