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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f349f66077a1344b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.33 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-02-24
MD5: 4b1efe97f681f40636e54e7c57033c2a SHA-1: a4e30006799ff191b48b8559c6062aa88ec2b6b3 SHA-256: f349f66077a1344b6c987a1e05fb32205ba48c6b12f6cf979dd87ecb94e4d961
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is an Excel file containing an embedded Equation Editor object that exploits CVE-2017-11882. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when the object is processed. No VBA macros were found to be executable, and no other scripts were extracted. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of the Equation Editor vulnerability.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • VBA project contains no executable statements low OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains a VBA project, but extracted modules only contain attributes/options/comments and no executable statements.
  • 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://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes
ole10native_00.bin
f60a75baa2906f6b30f3d42055b4343b395238b5dbe5f874447f02c270672b2a		 ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD009C03B1/Ole10nAtiVE 1710 bytes

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