Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e341bb103cd0ba3a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

778.9 KB Created: 2015-03-03 10:05:00 UTC Authoring application: 14.0000 First seen: 2018-06-21
MD5: af6d27b47ae5a39db78972be5cbd3fa0 SHA-1: 045aa122b8718feaff9e1bda13c1144099c63195 SHA-256: e341bb103cd0ba3a0bb60eede142e5e87332bb335359f9cd427e03fd9060209d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample contains an embedded OLE object with Ole10Native indicators, identified as a script dropper. This dropper is designed to download and execute a payload from a remote URL, likely exploiting CVE-2026-21514. The embedded URLs are suspicious and indicate a malicious intent to fetch and run a second-stage executable.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • 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.
  • Payload URL recovered from embedded OLE object (5 URLs) info OOXML_EMBEDDED_OBJECT_URL
    An embedded OLE object (xl/word/ppt embeddings) carries a next-stage download URL in its Ole10Native/Package stream — stored literally (incl. UTF-16) or base64-encoded — which the package-level URL sweep does not see. Surfaced as an IOC; self-validating (only real payload hosts).
  • 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://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvasIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • 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.crl0Embedded OLE package script
    • http://ts-crl.ws.symantec.com/tss-ca-g2.crl0(In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 825344 bytes
SHA-256: c5a13400e03ea36dbf4d1d3601f02fad92b2b01daf6cdb70643ebbec9e0ad10d
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, comctl32.dll, KERNEL32.DLL, ADVAPI32.DLL Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin ole-package OOXML word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin Ole10Native stream: Ole10Native 816159 bytes
SHA-256: 13e51e9b9f091e355cd6d260c6fc7609e11b5a046780587314b1745687fcc4af
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, comctl32.dll, KERNEL32.DLL, ADVAPI32.DLL Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
emf_00.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image1.emf 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 603c419f01082149ac39ff43d876627b42962deb9c4c91736e61bfbd0de8a2a1