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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0809fe0eff1f98fe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

107.0 KB Created: 1996-12-17 01:32:42 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: a2023080c6725b387a931d592176f636 SHA-1: 6b49307f0f91a393e02c2d87359594b8aaf305fc SHA-256: 0809fe0eff1f98fe42b6d41bc3087f86e2154b5738a398a28e59f0685bf32bcd
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet with a large amount of slack space and appended executable payload bytes, indicating it is likely a dropper or downloader. The appended payload suggests the file is designed to execute malicious code upon opening. The presence of appended executable data strongly suggests a malicious intent, likely to deliver a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 2

  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 109,592 bytes but its declared streams total only 24,565 bytes — 85,027 bytes (78%) 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.