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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddc5518d2ae25f34…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

905.5 KB First seen: 2022-11-09
MD5: 67de1af148d0615c761cfce17af6745d SHA-1: 0fd5632115a90007470b816d4b2fc0204cdb8bd8 SHA-256: ddc5518d2ae25f34cf4a154a9faf246fad15948e908bae5b3d7e0cf25b2fbf1c
140 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 is further supported by the OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR heuristic. The presence of an embedded OLE object, identified as ole10native_00.bin, strongly suggests this is the delivery mechanism for the exploit.

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 ECX) high SC_GETPC_CALL
    x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP ECX)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
f3d8afc9c59cee33b0598fa54e0c04df629c2eda08e45461031ff49743819510
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: oLe10nATIvE 917329 bytes