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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe049b3a44dcf6a8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

5.0 KB First seen: 2022-06-24
MD5: 4020debddd42a90b8c31a292039d6b79 SHA-1: bfe958d3f61d66c043866ec41686aff6d864b97c SHA-256: fe049b3a44dcf6a80aa5332192538fae8681e87726532af3cce80e0dda4804ca
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1559 Component Object Model Hijacking T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking: Component Object Model Hijacking

The file is a Microsoft Office document containing an embedded Equation Editor object. Heuristics indicate that this object is a payload for CVE-2017-11882, a known vulnerability in the Equation Editor component. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when the document is opened, leading to the delivery of a malicious payload. No scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient to classify the attack.

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 EDI) high SC_GETPC_CALL
    x86 GetPC stub (CALL $+5; POP EDI)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ole10native_00.bin
35043cf3d22a7e8d2198f0510d30d2254a9c0e4dc0f1d1fe1ae20b0faf82f464
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: Ole10Native 1953 bytes