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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be82b3893e28e28d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.43 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-01-27
MD5: 8841751eba67255fd2da8c773e3136d5 SHA-1: 516ee31d006de3b219bcd54964505e0a4b50d220 SHA-256: be82b3893e28e28dd2a7fe6eeb911609cc7920fe341cbf32983cbe22933306f8
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file contains an embedded Equation Editor OLE object that exploits CVE-2017-11882. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when the object is processed. Although the VBA project itself contains no executable statements, the critical heuristic firing indicates the presence of a payload within the Equation Editor object, likely for initial execution of a second-stage attack.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • VBA project contains no executable statements low OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains a VBA project, but extracted modules only contain attributes/options/comments and no executable statements.
  • 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.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes
ole10native_00.bin
a4285a6acf404a64faa35ebb08be2e6b6b0d8074b22f435293dd0d9676ee6f22		 ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD01C5BF8C/olE10nAtIVe 1441 bytes

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