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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eb2d10deb038b86…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

416.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-10-03
MD5: 66bd2064e933a06c4af53c4347c8de9e SHA-1: f8d79bb57a9d26cc95c7401f6ca962cdf59a0034 SHA-256: 1eb2d10deb038b86eaaadece40a705184b6f8ed3a24cb1f0804a1e556923e45c
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing indicates the exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object, which attempts to download a remote document from the specified URL. Although no VBA code was found to be executable, the presence of the OLE vulnerability and the embedded URL strongly suggests a downloader or initial access mechanism. The embedded URL is the primary IOC for this stage of the attack.

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://103.182.16.23/skkk/ped/ioi0ioi0ioioioo0IOIOI0IOoioi0ioii0IOIIOII0I0oioiioi0ioi0000%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%2300000000%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%230000000.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