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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 701f197419e60676…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

61.5 KB Created: 1996-12-17 01:32:42 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 6524d4d7bdce19c5793d6f3f122c135d SHA-1: 382539e74289d63f88d329699c2870ca450e85cb SHA-256: 701f197419e60676a6e8e27948751a70027c4d2143dd60e4b77ad9407f3d7ec3
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a Microsoft Excel document that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2009-3129, indicating an exploitation of a record overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

Heuristics 2

  • CVE-2009-3129 — Excel FEATHEADER record overflow critical CVE exact CVE_2009_3129
    Workbook 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.
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 62,985 bytes but its declared streams total only 24,565 bytes — 38,420 bytes (61%) 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).