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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 261a3d632d4b42ab…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

280.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2024-06-06
MD5: 8c5389452b99db45d0950da9e78f979c SHA-1: 037c5e32e127136e230392048e2a45bc68fd9aef SHA-256: 261a3d632d4b42abe4ff190b7c39feaeabc7405c790f2b7c25de0678f77ff4a3
70 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 download and execute a remote loader from the URL http://qr-in.com/cjSOLaD. Although the VBA project itself contains no executable statements, the exploit mechanism is clearly identified. This points to a downloader or initial access stage for a more complex 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://qr-in.com/cjSOLaD

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