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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62f2e82fab91730e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

103.1 KB Created: 1996-10-14 23:33:28 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 9248af3766265718fc1f4a2f7ea9a878 SHA-1: 757f99c1f05f7e155f377dd51231097450f132f0 SHA-256: 62f2e82fab91730ec9b7e96bcf23c5000474df283e4f07fe757dae857f14be2c
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is an OLE file with a large amount of slack space and appended payload bytes, indicating it likely contains and executes a secondary stage. The presence of a heuristic related to CVE-2009-0556 suggests exploitation of a known vulnerability for client execution. No specific family could be identified from the available evidence.

Heuristics 3

  • PowerPoint OffArray-style record stub — CVE-2009-0556 related high CVE related PPT_CVE_2009_0556_RELATED
    Small embedded PowerPoint Document stream contains the sparse record set associated with OffArray-style exploit stubs and lacks normal text/placeholder atoms. This is CVE-2009-0556-family evidence, reported as related until the malformed OffArray field is validated directly.
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 105,552 bytes but its declared streams total only 15,628 bytes — 89,924 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).
  • 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.