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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 074c4617216b95b5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .PPT

1.96 MB Created: 2009-05-21 02:07:35 Authoring application: Microsoft PowerPoint
MD5: 2159702b62d6ae02b6bc88a9d3e1743a SHA-1: fb373e74f917737b5f3625ec6cf17338ab565b6d SHA-256: 074c4617216b95b529f1d39f3c24a0ba77934a11f08c53f1df133d3b931441b6
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PowerPoint file with a significant amount of appended data, identified as an executable payload. Heuristics indicate a NOP sled and high tail entropy, consistent with shellcode. The large slack space further suggests the file has been tampered with to conceal the malicious payload. The file's structure and appended payload strongly indicate it's intended to deliver malware.

Heuristics 3

  • NOP sled detected high SC_NOP_SLED
    Found 20+ consecutive 0x90 bytes
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 2,054,041 bytes but its declared streams total only 18,081 bytes — 2,035,960 bytes (99%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • OLE file has appended executable-looking payload bytes high OLE_APPENDED_PAYLOAD
    OLE compound file contains a large high-entropy region beyond the declared major streams and that region includes shellcode, PE, or loader API markers. This is a payload-carrier signal, not a specific CVE attribution by itself.