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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e12dd5ec8d02967d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

966.5 KB First seen: 2023-08-28
MD5: 3eee111e40809e5239a3fff891eef791 SHA-1: 9d18eb872463810228ec748831c4df3998661e07 SHA-256: e12dd5ec8d02967d4034c689ac7a05fa7eef1f6513fcd99d6a10ebb0bb8e6788
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a Microsoft Office document containing an embedded Equation Editor object, which is known to be vulnerable to CVE-2017-11882. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code upon opening the document. The embedded object's payload is indicative of this exploit, suggesting the document is designed to deliver a secondary malicious payload.

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
acd93ce5958b4d6b2a4c7865b361f33e1e7f020d87f8cf31f74d825245e729ce
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: OlE10NatIvE 979278 bytes