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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13e79a33da9e8d74…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.26 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 0aea7cb94724ea21ce35854b14602c4e SHA-1: eb417d93638b6cd6668a43e592a7fa5790535759 SHA-256: 13e79a33da9e8d74784f322b23e22f3265a1f04ffb0df75c9a7b5d062eb33ba9
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an Excel file that exploits CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object to download a remote payload from the URL https://link.saja.market/kLF8fcAR9u?&forecast=low&litter=plausible&ottoman. Although VBA macros are present, they do not contain executable statements, indicating the exploit is likely delivered through the OLE object itself rather than macro execution.

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://link.saja.market/kLF8fcAR9u?&forecast=low&litter=plausible&ottoman

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