MALICIOUS
100
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution
The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2009-3129 indicates that this Excel file is designed to exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability. The OLE slack anomaly further suggests that the file has been tampered with to hide malicious content. Without a document body or scripts, the exact payload and delivery mechanism are unclear, but the exploit itself is the primary attack vector.
Heuristics 2
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CVE-2009-3129 — Excel FEATHEADER record overflow critical CVE exact CVE_2009_3129Workbook 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.
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OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALYOLE file is 62,982 bytes but its declared streams total only 24,565 bytes — 38,417 bytes (61%) 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).
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