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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31f2c320d50e96c7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

672.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: b38482f666e96fadf5697b2f7ed05316 SHA-1: 35a3eb0a8f5d584fe12ce156f83f9a9a5abcab6d SHA-256: 31f2c320d50e96c77c02d2c2aaf456d4910cc6e51f8a59df1657b0e9e1d436a1
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.005 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Visual Basic

The critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object, which attempts to load a remote resource from the URL 'https://exi.link/AvAEIt'. Although the VBA project contains no executable statements, the presence of the OLE2Link object and the associated URL strongly suggest a remote code execution attempt.

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

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