Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca8489c409d2a27a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

658.7 KB Created: 2007-08-13 02:12:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2012-07-12
MD5: fc3fe6cfa874f9d18947cf550f94417e SHA-1: f3dea0dfede351b9be36cf3366af0f7e2e2d02c5 SHA-256: ca8489c409d2a27a6ff3cb7780455e015bbfce884fa1d6d275bc44eaaa69a438
560 Risk Score

Heuristics 12

  • CVE-2007-3899 — Microsoft Word malformed string memory corruption critical CVE likely CVE_2007_3899
    Word OLE document has the MS07-060 malformed-string exploit shape: a Word 97-family FIB points to a malformed DOP/string-table region with an abnormal INT_MAX run, inflated text counters, and exploit payload or Mdropper.Z campaign evidence.
  • CVE-2008-2244 — Microsoft Word record-parsing payload (in carved embedded Office document) critical CVE likely CVE_2008_2244
    This finding applies to a carved embedded Office document found at a nonzero offset inside the submitted file, not directly to the top-level document. Word OLE document has normal small WordDocument/table streams, a large unallocated OLE slack region, and an executable or resolver shellcode payload in that slack. This is the static shape of the MS08-042 Word record-parsing exploit family tracked as CVE-2008-2244.
  • Reference to CreateRemoteThread API critical SC_STR_CREATEREMOTETHREAD
    Reference to CreateRemoteThread API
  • Embedded PE executable critical OLE_EMBEDDED_EXE
    MZ/PE header found inside document — possible embedded executable
  • Embedded Office document has suspicious static findings critical EMBEDDED_OFFICE_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A CFB/OLE Office document was found inside another file type and its carved contents matched Office exploit or payload heuristics. This catches wrapped exploit documents where the top-level file routes to a PE, archive, or generic scanner instead of Office.
  • NOP sled detected high SC_NOP_SLED
    Found 20+ consecutive 0x90 bytes
    Disassembly hidden — these bytes score as degenerate, not coherent x86 code (single mnemonic 'nop' is 100% of instructions — a sled or padding/filler run, not program logic).
  • x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EAX) high SC_GETPC_CALL
    x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EAX)
    Disassembly hidden — these bytes score as degenerate, not coherent x86 code (single mnemonic 'add' is 71% of instructions — a sled or padding/filler run, not program logic).
  • Reference to CreateProcess API high SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS
    Reference to CreateProcess API
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 674,468 bytes but its declared streams total only 18,208 bytes — 656,260 bytes (97%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_0002b96f.exe embedded-pe Office MZ+PE at offset 0x2B96F 495925 bytes
SHA-256: ad4b4985a91317c02b73357c03a82265e11c116efccf955b26cc6711aa45fff0
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL, SC_STR_CREATEREMOTETHREAD, SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: CreateRemoteThread, GetProcAddress, LoadLibraryA, CreateProcessW
embedded_office_off0000560d.ole embedded-office Embedded OLE/CFB Office body inside ole container at offset 0x560D 652439 bytes
SHA-256: 78282c18f34339ca096e7ba10d2f99ce27c69c0fea2677498cb66071f42c03a7
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL, SC_STR_CREATEREMOTETHREAD, SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: CreateRemoteThread, GetProcAddress, LoadLibraryA, CreateProcessW