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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee747564d4afa4b9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

69.9 KB First seen: 2022-06-27
MD5: 44afe2cde2bd703bc298ab11e4edad2c SHA-1: 237697de1ea77ac19b85f84cffa19c283c4e31d9 SHA-256: ee747564d4afa4b95f50d23e1ab049b7efccdf9a46f0ae33479e4719cce01813
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The critical CVE_2017_0199 heuristic indicates that this OOXML document is designed to exploit a vulnerability in OLE linking to download and execute a remote payload. The embedded URL http://emulatoros.github.io@itssotiny.com/LfBny is the likely source of this payload. The document is password-encrypted, which is a common tactic to evade static analysis and hide malicious content.

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 http://emulatoros.github.io@itssotiny.com/LfBny