Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc2f6c2329a0e609…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

66.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 15.0300 First seen: 2019-08-04
MD5: fe82d41200a9126f2860313f4dfeecb9 SHA-1: 61d0e20e77813a40eb9903693d5549c2bb910cca SHA-256: dc2f6c2329a0e609d39b52d6530a94a1a0f200a85659e6f296498963d2b8c860
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is an OOXML file containing an embedded OLE object, specifically identified as an Equation Editor object. Critical heuristics indicate a successful exploitation of CVE-2017-11882 through a FONT record overflow within this object. This vulnerability is known to allow arbitrary code execution, making it the primary attack vector.

Heuristics 4

  • CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882
    Equation Editor MTEF contains an overlong FONT typeface field, the vulnerable copy primitive for CVE-2017-11882. This is stronger evidence than the Equation Editor CLSID alone because it identifies the malformed record that drives code execution in EQNEDT32.EXE.
  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    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.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 4608 bytes
SHA-256: d808ef1dae2fd2cd53cf4faf529520dba369c446a8938b3068a998ba9880d8b2
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely