MalwareBazaar Database

Office OLE Information

This malware samples appears to be an Office document. The following table provides more information about this document using oletools and oledump.

OLE id

OLE dump

MalwareBazaar was able to identify 23 sections in this file using oledump:

OLE vba

MalwareBazaar was able to extract and deobfuscate VBA script(s) the following information from OLE objects embedded in this file using olevba:

Intelligence

File Origin

Origin country :

NL

Vendor Threat Intelligence

BitDam Legit

Verdict:

Legit

File type:

application/vnd.ms-excel

Has a screenshot:

False

Contains macros:

False

CAPE Sandbox

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/476945/

ClamAV Detected

Detection(s):

SecuriteInfo.com.IMG.Phish.19653.12980.UNOFFICIAL

Alert

Create hunting rule

TwinWave.EvilDoc.OfficeActivationPicturesOfU.XL.220802.UNOFFICIAL

Alert

Create hunting rule

SecuriteInfo.com.Trojan.GenericFCA.Agent.107859.13261.17004.UNOFFICIAL

Alert

Create hunting rule

SecuriteInfo.com.IMG.Phish.20422.21836.UNOFFICIAL

Alert

Create hunting rule

TwinWave.EvilDoc.OfficeActivationPicturesOfU.MSOLE2.220802.UNOFFICIAL

Alert

Create hunting rule

TwinWave.EvilDoc.OleWishDottedQuadPolicykill.20220908.UNOFFICIAL

Alert

Create hunting rule

Dr. Web vxCube Malware

Result

Verdict:

Malware

Maliciousness:

Behaviour

Changing an executable file

Using the Windows Management Instrumentation requests

Creating a window

Sending an HTTP GET request

Searching for synchronization primitives

Launching a process

Сreating synchronization primitives

Connection attempt by exploiting the app vulnerability

Launching a process by exploiting the app vulnerability

DocGuard Malicious

Result

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

Legacy Excel File with Macro

Link:

https://app.docguard.net/1cccaff03681911ff072020d9237cc42fff6a9f82940de1d5012f081419ba57e/results/dashboard

Payload URLs

URL

File name

http://104.218.236.114/winds/win/sweetpotattolikebabiesareusingballonforudationofnewverygoodupdatesfromthepcfornewsureupdatemakefasterp.doC

Embedded Ole

Behaviour

BlacklistAPI detected

Document image

Image:

Download PNG

FileScan.IO Malicious

Verdict:

Malicious

Threat level:

  10/10

Confidence:

100%

Tags:

embedequation exploit macros shellcode sload

Link:

https://www.filescan.io/uploads/65d44f2122703c3491a6f287/reports/9e6c4019-1767-479b-88b1-a562178cd284/overview

Hybrid Analysis CVE-2017-0199

Verdict:

Malicious

Labled as:

CVE-2017-0199

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/1cccaff03681911ff072020d9237cc42fff6a9f82940de1d5012f081419ba57e

inlyse Malware.AI Benign

Label:

Benign

Suspicious Score:

5/10

Score Malicious:

6%

Score Benign:

94%

Link:

https://www.malware.ai/gui/files/?id=adbc6b77-5c95-48da-843e-e7e2f1ffe9c0

InQuest MALICIOUS

Result

Verdict:

MALICIOUS

Link:

https://labs.inquest.net/dfi/sha256/1cccaff03681911ff072020d9237cc42fff6a9f82940de1d5012f081419ba57e

Details

Document With Few Pages

Document contains between one and three pages of content. Most malicious documents are sparse in page count.

Document With Minimal Content

Document contains less than 1 kilobyte of semantic information.

Joe Sandbox Remcos

Result

Threat name:

Remcos

Alert

Create hunting rule

Detection:

malicious

Classification:

spre.phis.troj.spyw.expl.evad

Score:

100 / 100

Link:

https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/1395034

Signature

Antivirus detection for dropped file

Antivirus detection for URL or domain

Bypasses PowerShell execution policy

C2 URLs / IPs found in malware configuration

Connects to a pastebin service (likely for C&C)

Contains functionality to bypass UAC (CMSTPLUA)

Contains functionality to inject code into remote processes

Contains functionality to register a low level keyboard hook

Contains functionality to steal Chrome passwords or cookies

Contains functionality to steal Firefox passwords or cookies

Creates autostart registry keys with suspicious values (likely registry only malware)

Delayed program exit found

Document exploit detected (process start blacklist hit)

Excel sheet contains many unusual embedded objects

Found malware configuration

Injects a PE file into a foreign processes

Installs new ROOT certificates

Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)

Maps a DLL or memory area into another process

Microsoft Office drops suspicious files

Microsoft Office launches external ms-search protocol handler (WebDAV)

Multi AV Scanner detection for domain / URL

Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file

Office equation editor establishes network connection

Office equation editor starts processes (likely CVE 2017-11882 or CVE-2018-0802)

Office viewer loads remote template

Sample uses process hollowing technique

Searches for Windows Mail specific files

Shellcode detected

Sigma detected: Bad Opsec Defaults Sacrificial Processes With Improper Arguments

Sigma detected: Base64 Encoded PowerShell Command Detected

Sigma detected: EQNEDT32.EXE connecting to internet

Sigma detected: Equation Editor Network Connection

Sigma detected: File Dropped By EQNEDT32EXE

Sigma detected: Potential PowerShell Obfuscation Via Reversed Commands

Sigma detected: PowerShell Base64 Encoded FromBase64String Cmdlet

Sigma detected: Powershell download and load assembly

Sigma detected: Powershell download payload from hardcoded c2 list

Sigma detected: Remcos

Sigma detected: Script Initiated Connection to Non-Local Network

Sigma detected: Suspicious Microsoft Office Child Process

Sigma detected: WScript or CScript Dropper

Snort IDS alert for network traffic

Suspicious execution chain found

Suspicious powershell command line found

System process connects to network (likely due to code injection or exploit)

Tries to harvest and steal browser information (history, passwords, etc)

Tries to steal Instant Messenger accounts or passwords

Tries to steal Mail credentials (via file / registry access)

Tries to steal Mail credentials (via file registry)

Uses dynamic DNS services

Very long command line found

Windows Scripting host queries suspicious COM object (likely to drop second stage)

Writes to foreign memory regions

Wscript starts Powershell (via cmd or directly)

Yara detected Remcos RAT

Yara detected UAC Bypass using CMSTP

Yara detected WebBrowserPassView password recovery tool

Behaviour

Behavior Graph:

Download SVG

CERT.PL MWDB

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/1cccaff03681911ff072020d9237cc42fff6a9f82940de1d5012f081419ba57e/

ReversingLabs TitaniumCloud Document-Office.Exploit.CVE-2017-0199

Threat name:

Document-Office.Exploit.CVE-2017-0199

Alert

Create hunting rule

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2024-02-19 13:39:40 UTC

File Type:

Document

Extracted files:

78

AV detection:

14 of 24 (58.33%)

Threat level:

  5/5

Spamhaus Hash Blocklist Suspicious file

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=dtgk74bwqgir74dsaigzen6mil77nkpyffan4hkqclyicqm3uv7a._file

Hatching Triage remcos

Result

Malware family:

remcos

Alert

Create hunting rule

Score:

  10/10

Tags:

family:remcos botnet:remotehost collection persistence rat spyware stealer

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/240220-hwjd3sda81/

Behaviour

Checks processor information in registry

Enumerates system info in registry

Launches Equation Editor

Modifies Internet Explorer settings

Modifies registry class

Script User-Agent

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Uses Task Scheduler COM API

Uses Volume Shadow Copy WMI provider

Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API

Office loads VBA resources, possible macro or embedded object present

Enumerates physical storage devices

Drops file in System32 directory

Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

Accesses Microsoft Outlook accounts

Adds Run key to start application

Abuses OpenXML format to download file from external location

Reads user/profile data of web browsers

Blocklisted process makes network request

NirSoft MailPassView

NirSoft WebBrowserPassView

Nirsoft

Remcos

Malware Config

C2 Extraction:

mohmusremcos.duckdns.org:14645

VMRay Malicious

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://www.vmray.com/analyses/_mb/1cccaff03681/report/overview.html

VirusTotal

Please note that we are no longer able to provide a coverage score for Virus Total.

YOROI YOMI Malicious File

Threat name:

Malicious File

Score:

0.70

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/1cccaff03681911ff072020d9237cc42fff6a9f82940de1d5012f081419ba57e

YARA Signatures

MalwareBazaar uses YARA rules from several public and non-public repositories, such as YARAhub and Malpedia. Those are being matched against malware samples uploaded to MalwareBazaar as well as against any suspicious process dumps they may create. Please note that only results from TLP:CLEAR rules are being displayed.

File information

The table below shows additional information about this malware sample such as delivery method and external references.

  

Delivery method

Distributed via e-mail attachment

Cape

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/476945/

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