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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 004b175898f19f02…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

444.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-06-01
MD5: 186a35dbbef89accab410f32f5322783 SHA-1: 9971d0701b5de9456d799ca886a683018d6853a9 SHA-256: 004b175898f19f02c6aeb66df0c36eeb1e0d6db28b2d636b4908240279506463
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.005 Visual Basic

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2017-0199 indicates the exploitation of a vulnerability in OLE2Link to load a remote resource. The embedded URL points to a potential second-stage payload. Although the VBA project contains no executable statements, the presence of the CVE exploit and the embedded URL strongly suggest a malicious intent to download and execute arbitrary code from the specified URL.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • VBA project contains no executable statements low OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains a VBA project, but extracted modules only contain attributes/options/comments and no executable statements.
  • 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://103.167.90.55/ui/zi/ziziziziiziziziizizizizi%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23ziziziziizzi.doc

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes

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