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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a534f397b9daad9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

738.5 KB
MD5: dec6df0a744c4d9d45b7169497a046d4 SHA-1: 050ffe733ad0d45abfb63772f9073e04feb918bd SHA-256: 8a534f397b9daad9b1bce2bee4490cb17d0cc00d56e35931b3a192606b041d4d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1566 Phishing T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is a password-encrypted Office document. High-severity heuristics indicate it is an exploit carrier, specifically containing an Equation Editor OLE object and encrypted OOXML exploit carrier shapes. The encryption prevents direct analysis of the document body, but the presence of these exploit indicators strongly suggests it is designed to deliver a malicious payload.

Heuristics 4

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Default-encrypted OOXML embedded OLE object xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin contains the Equation Editor CLSID, the legacy component exploited by CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802, and CVE-2018-0798.
  • 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-128)).
  • 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.