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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f621e9034c2b961…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

847.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 5d45ff1e465bb835cbff19ff4602a2fc SHA-1: 3f8a7d216ebe746bb1daa2a8d5ade24ebe90f730 SHA-256: 0f621e9034c2b9617d339fb313639475d51ada530f2eba4a8dc97aa6e2d18e95
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object, which is designed to download and execute a remote loader. The embedded URL is the primary indicator for the second-stage payload. Although VBA macros are present, they contain no executable statements, suggesting the exploit is directly embedded within the OLE structure.

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://rdt.li/OSmLOS?&astrakhan=threatening&mound=depressed&vessel=agonizing&ramie=huge&vegetable=divergent&colombia=adhesive&booklet

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