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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1d27dcaf0c1f3d5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

52.5 KB First seen: 2022-06-17
MD5: dec72093ab3649791e5e911e7d82a342 SHA-1: ce7cc00a48003f2dafa8ca3371ebca57668363c3 SHA-256: d1d27dcaf0c1f3d5b8c898efda07451d8bbc010c9d4186626fa73a4275049b32
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1566 Phishing T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an encrypted XLSX document. High-severity heuristics indicate it is an exploit carrier, specifically containing an Equation Editor OLE object. The encryption prevents direct analysis of the document body, but the presence of the Equation Editor OLE object strongly suggests an attempt to exploit a known vulnerability within that component to deliver a malicious payload.

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)).
  • 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.