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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 408927681990efd0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.73 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 2a41fc4b9345cd21974cd49e23716684 SHA-1: cd5b239bebf90ad6bdc9972441963e75a059d0f9 SHA-256: 408927681990efd00b5758473443cad5b01de544178e2a8ebad626c765dbc7bc
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_0199 indicates that the OLE object is attempting to load a remote resource via a URL moniker. This is a common technique for downloading and executing secondary payloads. The embedded PDF also contains suspicious static findings, suggesting it may be part of a multi-stage attack. No VBA macros were found to be executable, but the presence of the CVE exploit and embedded PDF points to a malicious downloader.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • 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://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes
stream_014_off0003f52b.bin
b0a7e7055d5b66edffe76c7b1f32ec80318d696df6181f1536f27aa69517872f		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3F52B 566620 bytes
stream_015_off0006f1fe.bin
0d5715bfb4def94d644e408c5ed714ea2ac557b061d036e7fdcf0a2bf1c990e2		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x6F1FE 398152 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000882ce.bin
ff37b045be3591e8cfbfa76f5dec51bee78deccafa1dc391d1edb36502c7f815		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x882CE 346068 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off000b2a00.pdf
abd8f084b9e12349c1e72edd3a22e715c9da0f5c607b03f27ff7874106b0b128		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside ole container at offset 0xB2A00 1084928 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off00000e00.pdf
cb36051b09ba5cdfcf6c629e97b396f8d9eb7d7746d204c207ae2c5ec651e555		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside ole container at offset 0xE00 1812992 bytes

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