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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c0e0531065f356e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

421.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-06-01
MD5: cce60a954e789855d8778363fd856668 SHA-1: b18dc3d65c808fddef8dad8069d4e6bddfdc5441 SHA-256: 1c0e0531065f356e6c3dac4a70534e228266215daf65bf38a91f4c8f59c9b591
70 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, a known vulnerability for remote code execution. The heuristic indicates it attempts to load a remote resource from the URL http://103.133.104.112/rf/iotiotiotiotiot%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23iotiotiotiotiotiot.doc. Although no VBA code was found to be executable, the presence of the CVE exploit and the embedded URL strongly suggest a downloader or initial access mechanism.

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://103.133.104.112/rf/iotiotiotiotiot%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23iotiotiotiotiotiot.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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