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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a522dbb01c390211…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

92.6 KB Created: 1996-12-17 01:32:42 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: aa1e6603180816a497fb9cc82eb4f041 SHA-1: 54c1e46abab89aa6bedad4b6e5f083552e835ed2 SHA-256: a522dbb01c390211182cd26ad53201f437ea5b29014fab81bd346d2961075743
82 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an OLE document with a large slack space and an appended executable payload, indicating it is likely a dropper or downloader. No VBA macros could be extracted due to an unsupported format. The document body is minimal, but embedded URLs point to 'www.pdf-repair.com', suggesting a lure to a potentially malicious site. The appended payload and embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

Heuristics 4

  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 94,782 bytes but its declared streams total only 24,565 bytes — 70,217 bytes (74%) 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).
  • OLE file has appended executable-looking payload bytes high OLE_APPENDED_PAYLOAD
    OLE compound file contains a large high-entropy region beyond the declared major streams and that region includes shellcode, PE, or loader API markers. This is a payload-carrier signal, not a specific CVE attribution by itself.
  • Unsupported Office format for VBA extraction info OFFICE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED
    olevba could not extract VBA macros (PermissionError); format-agnostic byte-level scans still ran. Likely legacy, encrypted, or malformed OLE/OOXML — re-scanning the same bytes will yield the same outcome.
  • 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://www.pdf-repair.com
    • http://www.pdf-repair.com)/Producer(Advanced
    • http://www.pdf-repair.com)/ModDate(D:20100406171120+08
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/

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