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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d34a4b86218d78d1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

1004.5 KB First seen: 2023-08-28
MD5: 53fd6a912073ae9b26c24809a1e356f0 SHA-1: d29a6871e9bd89ccd3434fd5d26c9219e484c450 SHA-256: d34a4b86218d78d19f6ef93dc27802d3b80d24db65abe0fbf224b5239f2855c0
100 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 Microsoft Equation Editor. This vulnerability is commonly used to deliver secondary payloads. The presence of an OLE object containing this payload strongly suggests an exploit attempt.

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
d6d3562b23b086af2f5e791284b1dd5821a15afa1f3543e6dbf1290d97c2681e
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: Ole10naTIvE 1018244 bytes