Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · f3aeadc03dd30c9e

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

32.2 KB First seen: 2022-08-03

MD5: 90b28bcbc65841876e3d6c0404ad28cf SHA-1: 986edf51c91e979f7ce8ed517af4b3cbb441f6c5 SHA-256: f3aeadc03dd30c9e13122f23e288088b0dc458a01460ecce61a435896e317afd

202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is a password-encrypted OOXML document identified as an exploit carrier. It leverages the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability, which allows for remote code execution by exploiting OLE2Link and URL Moniker functionality. The embedded URL http://medium.com@slinker.me/by is likely used to download and execute a secondary payload.

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://medium.com@slinker.me/by

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