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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d96a2e2126398e5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

84.0 KB First seen: 2022-08-22
MD5: 109b90dbcde46f69539a95ccc24cee26 SHA-1: 7023f44c654984daf6ada7fa73a191500fa6a6b6 SHA-256: 8d96a2e2126398e5e21726112c40df9036bb02c2300dced7b92b4f2094e4e953
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2017-0199 indicates that this OOXML file is designed to exploit a vulnerability in OLE2Link and URL Moniker to load a remote resource. The embedded URL, http://jmcglone.com@192.3.108.11/https/www_k/https.doc, is the likely source of the secondary payload. The document is password-encrypted, which is a common tactic to hide malicious content.

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://jmcglone.com@192.3.108.11/https/www_k/https.doc