MALICIOUS
100
Risk Score
Malware Insights
The sample is an OLE document with significant slack space, indicating potential obfuscation or packed content. The critical heuristic firing for XOR-encoded strings (key 0x92) further supports the presence of hidden or encoded malicious code. While no specific document body content or scripts were clearly extracted, these indicators strongly suggest a malicious document designed to conceal its true purpose, likely involving the execution of further malicious code.
Heuristics 2
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XOR-encoded strings (key 0x92) critical SC_XOR_ENCODEDFound 2 Windows library/API name(s) XOR-encoded with single-byte key 0x92: 'advapi32.dll', 'shell32.dll'
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OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALYOLE file is 96,768 bytes but its declared streams total only 23,704 bytes — 73,064 bytes (76%) 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).
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