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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff8b9ff2d3cfe4e6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

201.8 KB
MD5: fea8d72e7bb49a92b447ad3236b9c869 SHA-1: bc2dd2d0733ad3d566127dd07ee4779a10f1dcb9 SHA-256: ff8b9ff2d3cfe4e6bfaf7a0cf3c0037aa82a49d3517ecc2f7ba8ee750e49bdbe
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This XLSX file is password-encrypted and contains an embedded Equation Editor OLE object. Heuristics indicate it is an exploit carrier for CVE-2018-0798, which targets a vulnerability in the Equation Editor. The encryption and malformed structure suggest an attempt to obfuscate the malicious payload, likely delivered via the Equation Editor exploit.

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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