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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb3bdeb17f8ff84a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

255.6 KB First seen: 2022-06-15
MD5: 2ba860c676cbbad29f270f00dad03b3b SHA-1: 2d523b10da1b052ebe503e20e6635c47b6419c8d SHA-256: eb3bdeb17f8ff84a9c7390c12e73dd653901a6b21806124709b2d9812d1513a0
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1559 Component Object Model Hijacking T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking: Component Object Model

The file is a password-encrypted Office document that contains an embedded Equation Editor OLE object. Analysis indicates this object is anomalous and exploits CVE-2018-0798, a vulnerability associated with the Equation Editor. The document is structured as an exploit carrier, suggesting it is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 6

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Default-encrypted OOXML embedded OLE object xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 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
    Default-encrypted OOXML contains embedded Equation Editor data with anomalous native stream bytes consistent with a CVE-2018-0798-style exploit. This is treated as likely CVE evidence because the Equation object is malformed and payload-like.
  • Encrypted Office package with CFB FAT corruption critical OLE_ENCRYPTED_AND_MALFORMED
    Encrypted-package shape co-occurs with FAT-chain corruption — the documented combined evasion form.
  • Default-encrypted OOXML exploit carrier layout high OOXML_ENCRYPTED_EXPLOIT_CARRIER_SHAPE
    Default-password encrypted OOXML package contains embedded OLE object parts and additional activation/decoy parts. This layout is common in malicious Excel exploit delivery and requires inspecting the decrypted package.
  • Office document is password-encrypted medium OFFICE_ENCRYPTED_PACKAGE
    OLE container holds MS-OFFCRYPTO encrypted package (Standard Encryption (Office 2007, AES)).
  • Office OOXML encrypted with default VelvetSweatshop password medium OFFICE_DEFAULT_PASSWORD_ENCRYPTED_OOXML
    OLE EncryptedPackage decrypts with Excel's built-in VelvetSweatshop password. Office opens this transparently, and malware uses it to hide OOXML exploit parts from scanners that only inspect the outer OLE container.

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