Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6b4513f519d976f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

814.0 KB Created: 2014-12-02 03:30:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2018-06-21
MD5: 4add1925e46ed6576861f62ebb016185 SHA-1: 63517d4a816466f0afef06f781d77928f651d9ed SHA-256: d6b4513f519d976f5503eff378ef21aed5bd65b975bbedd0e20710e10166aaad
362 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is a Microsoft Word document that exploits CVE-2007-3899, a memory corruption vulnerability, to execute arbitrary code. The embedded Ole10Native package contains a script that downloads and executes a payload from the provided URLs. The document body's instruction to 'Allow editing' suggests a lure to enable macro execution or exploit functionality.

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • OLE with Ole10Native — possible CVE-2026-21514 exploitation high CVE likely CVE_2026_21514
    Document contains a Word OLE object with Ole10Native plus executable, PE, or risky remote-link indicators. CVE-2026-21514 exploits OLE metadata validation; this stronger structure is treated as likely exploitation.
  • Ole10Native package payload is a download-and-execute script critical OFFICE_PACKAGE_SCRIPT_DROPPER
    The OLE Package's embedded payload contains a script that hosts a shell (PowerShell/WScript/mshta), fetches a remote resource, and executes it — a download-and-run dropper. Embedding such a script inside an Office document via the Object Packager is a direct user-execution delivery technique (MITRE T1204.002), not a benign attachment.
  • Ole10Native package drops an auto-executable payload critical OFFICE_PACKAGE_RISKY_FILE
    OLE Package displayName or fullPath ends in a directly auto-executable extension (a runnable binary or a script the default shell host runs on double-click). Embedding such a payload inside an Office document has no benign authoring use — it is a malware-delivery dropper.
  • x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EAX) high SC_GETPC_CALL
    x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EAX)
    Disassembly
    Attempted x86 opcode disassembly
    000982FD  e800000000        call 0x98302
    00098302  58                pop eax
    00098303  055a0b0000        add eax, 0xb5a
    00098308  8b30              mov esi, dword ptr [eax]
    0009830A  03f0              add esi, eax
    0009830C  2bc0              sub eax, eax
    0009830E  8bfe              mov edi, esi
    00098310  66ad              lodsw ax, word ptr [esi]
    00098312  c1e00c            shl eax, 0xc
    00098315  8bc8              mov ecx, eax
    00098317  50                push eax
    00098318  ad                lodsd eax, dword ptr [esi]
    00098319  2bc8              sub ecx, eax
    0009831B  03f1              add esi, ecx
    0009831D  8bc8              mov ecx, eax
    0009831F  57                push edi
    00098320  51                push ecx
    00098321  49                dec ecx
    00098322  8a443906          mov al, byte ptr [ecx + edi + 6]
    00098326  880431            mov byte ptr [ecx + esi], al
    00098329  75f6              jne 0x98321
    0009832B  2bc0              sub eax, eax
    0009832D  ac                lodsb al, byte ptr [esi]
    0009832E  8bc8              mov ecx, eax
    00098330  80e1f0            and cl, 0xf0
    00098333  240f              and al, 0xf
    00098335  c1e10c            shl ecx, 0xc
    00098338  8ae8              mov ch, al
    0009833A  ac                lodsb al, byte ptr [esi]
    0009833B  0bc8              or ecx, eax
    0009833D  51                push ecx
    0009833E  02cd              add cl, ch
    00098340  bd00fdffff        mov ebp, 0xfffffd00
    00098345  d3e5              shl ebp, cl
    00098347  59                pop ecx
    00098348  58                pop eax
    00098349  8bdc              mov ebx, esp
    0009834B  8da46c90f1ffff    lea esp, [esp + ebp*2 - 0xe70]
    00098352  51                push ecx
    00098353  2bc9              sub ecx, ecx
    00098355  51                push ecx
    00098356  51                push ecx
    00098357  8bcc              mov ecx, esp
    00098359  51                push ecx
    0009835A  668b17            mov dx, word ptr [edi]
  • Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXEC
    Reference to ShellExecute API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API
  • 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.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ocsp.thawte.com0 Embedded OLE package script
    • http://ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com07Embedded OLE package script
    • http://crl.thawte.com/ThawteTimestampingCA.crl0Embedded OLE package script
    • http://ts-aia.ws.symantec.com/tss-ca-g2.cer0Embedded OLE package script
    • http://ts-crl.ws.symantec.com/tss-ca-g2.crl0(In document text (OLE body)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/bibliographyIn document text (OLE body)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/customXmlIn document text (OLE body)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/mainIn document text (OLE body)
    • http://ts-crl.ws.symantec.com/tss-ca-g2.crl0Embedded OLE package script

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: ObjectPool/_1481005796/Ole10Native 790579 bytes
SHA-256: 6bf10ee4f8c775cabb2b50b89c1ed646db6e8080eafa8f9c244ae79b9565390f
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS, SC_STR_SHELLEXEC, SC_GETPC_CALL Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: kernel32.dll, advapi32.dll, shell32.dll, KERNEL32.DLL, ADVAPI32.DLL, GetProcAddress Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.