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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ce2f04ee2bf17ae…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

19.3 KB First seen: 2022-04-21
MD5: 07dff71563cecacb8fa0653dd7992023 SHA-1: d8e5b8b293b01b27c431c126c78f7321d8af3989 SHA-256: 2ce2f04ee2bf17ae1653cd75b653732302420d1d1ca331e3d293c06d60845bcd
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Embedded Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The sample is an encrypted Office document that exploits CVE-2017-0199. This vulnerability allows the document to act as a remote loader, fetching and executing a payload from the embedded URL https://minilinq.com/j7OHR. The exploitation of a known vulnerability for remote code execution is a common attack pattern for initial access.

Heuristics 6

  • OLE2Link / URL Moniker → remote loader — CVE-2017-0199 critical CVE likely CVE_2017_0199
    Document contains an embedded OLE link object whose URL Moniker points to a remote URL. When the host file is opened, Office follows the link, downloads the URL, and processes the response based on its Content-Type (HTA -> mshta.exe, RTF → Word, etc.) — the documented CVE-2017-0199 primitive. The URL extension is not a reliable filter; servers can return different payloads to Office's user agent.
  • Encrypted Office package with CFB FAT corruption critical OLE_ENCRYPTED_AND_MALFORMED
    Encrypted-package shape co-occurs with FAT-chain corruption — the documented combined evasion form.
  • Default-encrypted OOXML exploit carrier layout high OOXML_ENCRYPTED_EXPLOIT_CARRIER_SHAPE
    Default-password encrypted OOXML package contains embedded OLE object parts and additional activation/decoy parts. This layout is common in malicious Excel exploit delivery and requires inspecting the decrypted package.
  • Office document is password-encrypted medium OFFICE_ENCRYPTED_PACKAGE
    OLE container holds MS-OFFCRYPTO encrypted package (Standard Encryption (Office 2007, AES)).
  • Office OOXML encrypted with default VelvetSweatshop password medium OFFICE_DEFAULT_PASSWORD_ENCRYPTED_OOXML
    OLE EncryptedPackage decrypts with Excel's built-in VelvetSweatshop password. Office opens this transparently, and malware uses it to hide OOXML exploit parts from scanners that only inspect the outer OLE container.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://minilinq.com/j7OHR

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