Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc3baa526d07f095…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

862.0 KB Created: 2014-12-01 20:30:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2018-06-21
MD5: 890c9bb8b257636a6e2081acdfdd6e3c SHA-1: 9fd271d3ca89e680e3344da2282ee1682893332a SHA-256: fc3baa526d07f095fa0a5ae991c76e744a7c3b8184805b756b51a18bda31a3d5
444 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a Microsoft Word document that contains an embedded executable file. It exploits CVE-2007-3899, a memory corruption vulnerability, to facilitate the execution of the embedded PE file. The embedded executable is identified as a dropper by ClamAV, suggesting it is designed to download and execute further malicious payloads.

Heuristics 12

  • CVE-2007-3899 — Microsoft Word malformed string memory corruption critical CVE likely CVE_2007_3899
    Word OLE document has the MS07-060 malformed-string exploit shape: a Word 97-family FIB points to a malformed DOP/string-table region with an abnormal INT_MAX run, inflated text counters, and exploit payload or Mdropper.Z campaign evidence.
  • OLE with Ole10Native — possible CVE-2026-21514 exploitation high CVE likely CVE_2026_21514
    Document contains a Word OLE object with Ole10Native plus executable, PE, or risky remote-link indicators. CVE-2026-21514 exploits OLE metadata validation; this stronger structure is treated as likely exploitation.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6519257-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6519257-0
  • Embedded PE executable critical OLE_EMBEDDED_EXE
    MZ/PE header found inside document — possible embedded executable
  • Ole10Native package drops an auto-executable payload critical OFFICE_PACKAGE_RISKY_FILE
    OLE Package displayName or fullPath ends in a directly auto-executable extension (a runnable binary or a script the default shell host runs on double-click). Embedding such a payload inside an Office document has no benign authoring use — it is a malware-delivery dropper.
  • Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXEC
    Reference to ShellExecute API
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API
  • Reference to VirtualAlloc API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALALLOC
    Reference to VirtualAlloc API
  • Reference to VirtualProtect API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALPROTECT
    Reference to VirtualProtect API
  • 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.
  • 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/officeDocument/2006/bibliography In document text (OLE body)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/customXmlIn document text (OLE body)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/mainIn document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_0000566f.exe embedded-pe Office MZ+PE at offset 0x566F 860561 bytes
SHA-256: 0db7c48fb32e4de13057558ef296cde54e37827d44d191062d72430bcab774b7
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.90, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
ole10native_00.bin ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: ObjectPool/_1484310332/Ole10Native 845103 bytes
SHA-256: afa24aa5853bbd4b93ad5562cf1344bfadd2a8f35e4a779ce067396689b1b696
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.90, consistent with packed or encrypted content.