Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · 786f1e09be7324d3

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

55.0 KB First seen: 2022-08-31

MD5: d090594d5eccc52988a0d3d91cec556d SHA-1: c42cfc7914aa1b64706ff6f6db062902faa4edf6 SHA-256: 786f1e09be7324d3a2a977447cf12770d522b5e1c221aca258d628b212f5f8d8

142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The sample is an encrypted OOXML document that leverages the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability. This exploit is designed to act as a remote loader, fetching and executing a secondary payload from the embedded URL. The document itself is password-encrypted, preventing direct analysis of its content, but the exploit carrier and URL are clear indicators of 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://username@172.245.142.47/.......------------------..-----.--.--------..---------.-----.---_----_/www_g/www.doc

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