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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfdd5bbbd99f3685…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

979.5 KB First seen: 2022-09-01
MD5: b5198cab4acc3cb048cf979be203daa5 SHA-1: 2a398fbe8d7f4629daba54b5d9253f694f04780d SHA-256: cfdd5bbbd99f368553442dca5757e9cc13a72d69a0cf1d24904830b6ac767d15
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a Microsoft Office document containing a malicious Equation Editor OLE object. Heuristics indicate exploitation of CVE-2017-11882, a known vulnerability that allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded OLE object likely contains and executes a second-stage payload.

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
627e7d552c1163acacddc4cf6a5316d9504c9cd4285a55dea3f9bf93fd0deadf
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: Ole10naTivE 992417 bytes