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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 beb7e6e2296e96c7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

501.5 KB
MD5: 9f39303ea71aad5416722d9958731265 SHA-1: 47251a1d9992387a1bfa4db173115076e43a55cb SHA-256: beb7e6e2296e96c7050aff1350cea121945542c36638bf41d615a1eba9b4a498
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The file is an encrypted Office document, a common technique to hide malicious content. Heuristics indicate the presence of an Equation Editor OLE object, which is frequently used to deliver exploits. The document's encrypted nature prevents direct analysis of its content, but the combination of encryption and the Equation Editor object strongly suggests it's an exploit carrier.

Heuristics 4

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Default-encrypted OOXML 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.
  • Default-encrypted OOXML exploit carrier layout high OOXML_ENCRYPTED_EXPLOIT_CARRIER_SHAPE
    Default-password encrypted OOXML package contains embedded OLE object parts and additional activation/decoy parts. This layout is common in malicious Excel exploit delivery and requires inspecting the decrypted package.
  • Office document is password-encrypted medium OFFICE_ENCRYPTED_PACKAGE
    OLE container holds MS-OFFCRYPTO encrypted package (Standard Encryption (Office 2007+, AES-128)).
  • Office OOXML encrypted with default VelvetSweatshop password medium OFFICE_DEFAULT_PASSWORD_ENCRYPTED_OOXML
    OLE EncryptedPackage decrypts with Excel's built-in VelvetSweatshop password. Office opens this transparently, and malware uses it to hide OOXML exploit parts from scanners that only inspect the outer OLE container.