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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef74ad4dc4ade968…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

818.0 KB First seen: 2022-07-11
MD5: 8891b037f41759e7840cb4546cd633c7 SHA-1: 4cc2c17d106747a39fa64b38cd26a4254f57a946 SHA-256: ef74ad4dc4ade9682423d45304d9628070c3ee7dd8b6cbf144154ce6b2d5c007
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a Microsoft Office document containing a malicious Equation Editor OLE object. This object exploits CVE-2017-11882, a known vulnerability that allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded payload is likely designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, though no specific script or URL was extracted.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EBP) high SC_GETPC_CALL
    x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EBP)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
b7cb3356e26cfe32ba81473afa1bfc9ff4deebba96b352dbbbe07468009412a2
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: OlE10naTIvE 828700 bytes