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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2319aa2adb90c44b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

641.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 7e28f8cffffe2ee9420b3ea7915101a4 SHA-1: 83f9b8f410ed49d2de8fcee1d3659deb8d06adcf SHA-256: 2319aa2adb90c44bec9ad97f567b060722bdf5084e7f9b43c65b0feaee993227
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object, which is designed to load remote content. The extracted URL, https://og1.in/Ts9zje, is highly suspicious and likely serves as the download location for a second-stage payload. Although the VBA project contains no executable statements, the OLE vulnerability itself is sufficient for initial compromise.

Heuristics 2

  • 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.

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