Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e48f134c321fdc31…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

23.6 KB Created: 2013-10-31 15:25:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: ae4db3b70f2a25e25987821ea5578324 SHA-1: 78527a7cf381bd4d3d186e82184e5f5ae506f5d6 SHA-256: e48f134c321fdc31a646e747993b1592f576519d7ebbc0ae9b0eac7337eaf422
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious due to critical heuristic firings indicating exploitation of CVE-2021-40444 via an external OLEObject. This exploit leverages a malicious URL, which is also present in the extracted evidence. The embedded OLEObject likely attempts to download and execute a secondary payload from the specified URL, aligning with a common attack pattern for exploiting this vulnerability.

Heuristics 4

  • External OLEObject gadget — CVE-2021-40444 critical CVE exact CVE_2021_40444
    External relationship to mhtml:http://canarytokens.com/about/tags/el5o3hc7durinumxss8hlokkw/index.html!x- — exploitable external OLEObject gadget pattern for CVE-2021-40444
  • ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2021_40444-9891528-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2021_40444-9891528-0
  • External relationship high OOXML_EXTERNAL_REL
    External target in word/_rels/document.xml.rels: mhtml:http://canarytokens.com/about/tags/el5o3hc7durinumxss8hlokkw/index.html!x-usc:http://canarytokens.com/about/tags/e
  • 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://canarytokens.com/about/tags/el5o3hc7durinumxss8hlokkw/index.html!x- OOXML external relationship
    • http://canarytokens.com/about/tags/el5o3hc7durinumxss8hlokkw/index.html!x-usc:http://canarytokens.com/about/tags/el5o3hc7durinumxss8hlokkw/index.htmlOOXML external relationship
    • http://canarytokens.com/about/tags/el5o3hc7durinumxss8hlokkw/index.html!x-usc:http://canarytokens.com/about/tags/eOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvasIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/inkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3dIn 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/2012/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cidIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexIn 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)

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