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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2ccf7ab37fbee1f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

651.0 KB First seen: 2022-04-25
MD5: fb97fcbdd8ee8bd1743a6e3f9a06c95a SHA-1: 4342b73a800d08c4113fc2b29e913da9ac5d540f SHA-256: e2ccf7ab37fbee1f5a4adc86e8a8379fd87c8e0a8fab8f2e4398fd7c5891a2a8
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This XLSX document is password-encrypted and contains an embedded OLE object designed to exploit CVE-2017-0199. The exploit carrier points to a remote URL, 'https://docria.github.io@bot.ax/ORxoB', which likely serves as a loader for a second-stage payload. The document's structure and the specific CVE exploited indicate a malicious intent to compromise the user's system via a remote download and execution attack.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Encrypted Office package with CFB FAT corruption critical OLE_ENCRYPTED_AND_MALFORMED
    Encrypted-package shape co-occurs with FAT-chain corruption — the documented combined evasion form.
  • 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 https://docria.github.io@bot.ax/ORxoB