Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · fa5973060f17a8d1

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

48.5 KB First seen: 2022-08-09

MD5: ff63b28635339571f9ed6315f8819653 SHA-1: 9d75dd9a273115b0c550c722cf1ec4599c2b7c28 SHA-256: fa5973060f17a8d1a5ff15138f0a82c633149d98fb331e68e9f39b2826fb0230

142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The sample is a password-protected OOXML file that leverages the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability. This vulnerability allows the embedded OLE object to act as a remote loader, fetching and executing a payload from the URL http://jmcglone.com@aws3.link/OnqdKS. The document's encrypted nature and the exploit carrier shape indicate a malicious intent to deliver a secondary stage.

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://jmcglone.com@aws3.link/OnqdKS

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