Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · 3596688fe83b29fa

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

707.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: 35a9418d470db125f711b33da3e81524 SHA-1: 91af8ee50c16a5a9fe0297b86ef5fdebdf4a5bfe SHA-256: 3596688fe83b29fa9c200e9c507a9d804620615bf8eb994f68bc8d4b71f68d07

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 download and execute a remote payload from the provided URL. Although the VBA macros themselves do not contain executable statements, the OLE object's functionality is sufficient to initiate a malicious download. The extracted URL is the primary indicator of 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	1206 bytes

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