MALICIOUS
100
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link
T1204.002 Malicious File
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
The file is an OLE document that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2009-3129, indicating an exploit targeting a Microsoft Excel FEATHEADER record overflow. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution. The large slack space in the OLE structure is also anomalous. No document body, scripts, or URLs were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient to classify the attack pattern.
Heuristics 2
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CVE-2009-3129 — Excel FEATHEADER record overflow critical CVE exact CVE_2009_3129Workbook BIFF stream contains a FEATHEADER (Feature Header) record with anomalous size (record_size=22, isf=4, cbHdrData=4). Legitimate FEATHEADER records are tiny (<100 bytes) and carry cbHdrData values that fit in the record body; the value here is the documented CVE-2009-3129 exploit primitive — cbHdrData drives a memcpy with attacker-controlled size, leading to memory corruption and code execution in Excel 2007/2003.
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OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALYOLE file is 232,168 bytes but its declared streams total only 34,044 bytes — 198,124 bytes (85%) 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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