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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d05fc69370d8201a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

2.58 MB First seen: 2022-07-13
MD5: 5f2437de71a81b3f6aee8d3f7cb2508e SHA-1: e501c4c68a0db5fd22b3bd8acc0088b0ebe2ef67 SHA-256: d05fc69370d8201ad96edc4251f799f156b7227c329eef7152690f2cb39f38ea
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates the exploitation of a known vulnerability in the Equation Editor. This is further supported by the OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR heuristic. The embedded ole10native artifact is the payload for this exploit, likely leading to further malicious activity.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
994b00a516857486efb1653b7a939a65da70954e466066d2c6c07cd751f8948e
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: Ole10Native 2680203 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.