Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · e456dcb1f871fea0

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

1.28 MB Created: 2021-09-22 12:07:42 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000 First seen: 2022-03-21

MD5: ca98b70c3c0a5955151ea06d4736dbf4 SHA-1: 4b570e33d1cf011ee26481eccf1552e9a79f83e5 SHA-256: e456dcb1f871fea06c9718ec3313bc090445b56165aada5a77900233956710d7

142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The file is an Excel spreadsheet containing an embedded OLE object, specifically identified as a Microsoft Equation Editor object. High-severity heuristics indicate that this Equation Editor object is anomalous and carries a payload-like stream, strongly suggesting exploitation of CVE-2018-0798. This technique is commonly used to execute arbitrary code, leading to the download and execution of further malicious stages.

Heuristics 5

Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR

Embedded OLE object xl/embeddings/mIIAhY.Cl contains the Equation Editor CLSID, the legacy component exploited by CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802, and CVE-2018-0798.
CVE-2018-0798 — anomalous Equation Editor native stream high CVE likely CVE_2018_0798_EQUATION_NATIVE_ANOMALY

Embedded Equation Editor OLE data contains anomalous native stream bytes consistent with a CVE-2018-0798-style Equation Editor exploit. This is treated as likely CVE evidence because the Equation object is malformed and payload-like, but it does not match the exact public matrix-overflow byte signature.
Equation Editor object carries payload-like Ole10Native stream high OLE_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE_PAYLOAD_ANOMALY

Embedded OLE object declares the Equation Editor CLSID but stores a large high-entropy Ole10Native stream with malformed package sizing. This is an exploit-shaped Equation/OLE payload container seen in malicious OOXML samples. It is not assigned to a specific CVE unless the MTEF/Equation Native primitive also matches.
Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT

Document contains an embedded OLE object
Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`ooxml_oleobject_00.bin` `b1039bc8ac2993a37334da9e4e3f65b0fec67aada208406f890e3380a937b349`	ooxml-ole-object	OOXML embedded OLE part: xl/embeddings/mIIAhY.Cl	1569280 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
`ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin` `00ded09f74f533899bc4ebbe823a251d0b9fa0ba4266586ce9d0a78597c1f4ea`	ole-package	OOXML xl/embeddings/mIIAhY.Cl Ole10Native stream: Ole10Native	1554653 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.

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