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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebcfe9fe00e15e84…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

70.1 KB Created: 1996-12-17 01:32:42 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 81f67237374a61db85dfb6c467ab059b SHA-1: 5f06fc355924eeb138170c4aaa0a34bdd1cb2b82 SHA-256: ebcfe9fe00e15e84db42f4dc03063d65d00cee186dc19e9642bf8cc20ec863d3
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1059.003 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell

The sample is an Excel file exhibiting a large slack space anomaly and triggering a critical alert for CVE-2009-3129, a known Excel FEATHEADER record overflow vulnerability. Additionally, it shows suspicious cmd.exe invocation and PEB access, indicating potential code execution. The embedded URL 'http://www.pdf-repair.com' is of unknown reputation and could be part of a lure or command and control infrastructure.

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 71,742 bytes but its declared streams total only 24,565 bytes — 47,177 bytes (66%) 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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