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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4185cc6de37141b3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

48.5 KB First seen: 2022-08-09
MD5: 2afa69da516b864563512b6e9cb3d298 SHA-1: 72aa73827cdbb1c6f2c5ddf6f2350a3e2342e4c4 SHA-256: 4185cc6de37141b39808b7c2aebb0a64a6bad5d1f4454f70cddee9534edf2d8b
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1071.001 Web Protocols: Web Protocols

The sample is an encrypted Office document that leverages the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability. This vulnerability allows the document to act as a remote loader, fetching and executing a payload from the embedded URL http://jmcglone.com@aws3.link/wZwTzH. The use of an exploit carrier shape and default encryption further supports its malicious intent.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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 http://jmcglone.com@aws3.link/wZwTzH