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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7ca8094acc993b4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

53.5 KB First seen: 2022-08-30
MD5: a6e8bd7de47e5779d18627c69083aefa SHA-1: 71efc5c293d4d4fe5190e5c2b804918973ba2066 SHA-256: d7ca8094acc993b4ad3473803056367473fe9076e1986e6a648fae6ca7fa578b
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is an encrypted Office document that exploits CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE object. This vulnerability allows it to act as a remote loader, downloading a secondary payload from the embedded URL. The document's encrypted nature and the exploit carrier shape indicate it is designed to deliver 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://username@172.245.142.47/..------............----------------...------_-----------...----._---.--....-/https_c/www.doc