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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0489b844d49a5e25…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.30 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: db2b0bdf7e6c477abe6be502fcf3ed39 SHA-1: 8bda70fbe1ea06569492a734ad0ece2eae1ca6ce SHA-256: 0489b844d49a5e250f544f1420874eeb473c8797628cd795d0cc91fc34362202
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is an Excel spreadsheet that leverages the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability. This vulnerability allows the exploitation of URL Monikers to download and execute a remote loader from the URL https://getabre.com/UJNOx6. The VBA macros present in the document, while not containing executable statements directly, are part of the exploit chain.

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 https://getabre.com/UJNOx6
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

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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