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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db24c32368f913fb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

963.0 KB First seen: 2023-09-08
MD5: 118a6c9cf50730f41bbe0823f2f7bd93 SHA-1: 2b445def22674e5c55bdfdfdacf6367804244fac SHA-256: db24c32368f913fb366eb2d6feafd934e161bf5ca13620443d7fc2cdc08bc5ee
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates the sample leverages a known vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This vulnerability is commonly used to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The presence of the ole10native artifact further supports this exploitation vector.

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.
  • x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EBP) high SC_GETPC_CALL
    x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EBP)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
2e0cce8faf443bd67a6091d616c5f0814e82e8940cc9746f8d1424e8efb61500
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: Ole10native 975475 bytes