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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 125eb618199657cc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

360.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-07-16
MD5: 899609862bcca28ec826a51df67d8281 SHA-1: 131cd1aa9cd2c3b1890b81fb613636787ce9db53 SHA-256: 125eb618199657cc304f550654d76ebc9e91105e2ce6c5ef2591a3f94f6b5efc
132 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an OLE file that exploits CVE-2017-0199 via a URL moniker to download a remote document. The embedded URL, http://192.3.243.157/wd/v/netsatnetsatnetsatnetsatnetsatnetsat%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23nsetsnetsnetsnetsetnsetsnetsnstsnset.DOC, is indicative of a remote loader attempting to fetch a secondary payload. Although no VBA code was found to be executable, the exploit itself is sufficient to initiate a download and subsequent execution chain.

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.
  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • 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.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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://192.3.243.157/wd/v/netsatnetsatnetsatnetsatnetsatnetsat%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23nsetsnetsnetsnetsetnsetsnetsnstsnset.DOC

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000817d.bin
68d167e68895a344f3603a4efd0d8438eb8fdebe759cee48f2b4adf75c76c961
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x817D 12100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009f95.bin
50551000b9f90b3f445ee94749557d9ddf96697a74984b3ccf3d2bae66910750
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F95 15820 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off00000e00.pdf
f7581bb41ce72aa6c69630c39130371de03f0633d25b715760f9aa8ba3873da8
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside ole container at offset 0xE00 365568 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off00006000.pdf
9f06d1345f4d0bb44fa021b547cfe4d9d643e4d9ee09bebc2427b1f10f462e34
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside ole container at offset 0x6000 344576 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off0000e200.pdf
cf89078346e36bbe7fd91359436d6507afdb10f2237a46d71ad70fd7881ddc07
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside ole container at offset 0xE200 311296 bytes