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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab2b499053c1f5b7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

76.1 KB Created: 1996-12-17 01:32:42 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: e545e77c59412b4faf8dd41fe2c451be SHA-1: 0b8c035290313627b3b13ec85bf84c56b77051f2 SHA-256: ab2b499053c1f5b7fc07d8ba68820daec8d815197711c717c269b7567712c2e9
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The critical CVE-2009-3129 heuristic indicates exploitation of a known Excel vulnerability. This is further supported by a suspicious cmd.exe invocation, suggesting the exploit is used to launch a command-line process. The embedded URLs, while mostly benign, include references to 'pdf-repair.com', which could be a lure for a malicious download. The large slack space in the OLE document is also a common characteristic of exploit-laden files.

Heuristics 5

  • CVE-2009-3129 — Excel FEATHEADER record overflow critical CVE exact CVE_2009_3129
    Workbook BIFF stream contains a FEATHEADER (Feature Header) record with anomalous size (record_size=22, isf=4, cbHdrData=4). Legitimate FEATHEADER records are tiny (<100 bytes) and carry cbHdrData values that fit in the record body; the value here is the documented CVE-2009-3129 exploit primitive — cbHdrData drives a memcpy with attacker-controlled size, leading to memory corruption and code execution in Excel 2007/2003.
  • PEB access via FS segment (x86) high SC_PEB_ACCESS
    PEB access via FS segment (x86)
  • Suspicious cmd.exe invocation with execution flag high SC_STR_CMD
    Suspicious cmd.exe invocation with execution flag
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 77,886 bytes but its declared streams total only 24,565 bytes — 53,321 bytes (68%) 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).
  • 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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