Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · 7ecd9416f8437455

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

70.0 KB First seen: 2022-06-27

MD5: 9ceaad5e3a16bc921585fc2451acfe0b SHA-1: e597aacec75de6b73e5cfc035f38256667be76db SHA-256: 7ecd9416f843745526481b29c8aea3536ecf19656d66f4738fcc37de0a5f2d64

202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The sample is a password-encrypted Office document identified as an exploit carrier for CVE-2017-0199. It contains an embedded OLE object that attempts to download a payload from the URL http://htmlpreview.github.io@arpix.ch/MLcRc. The document's encrypted nature and the exploit technique strongly indicate a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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 http://htmlpreview.github.io@arpix.ch/MLcRc

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