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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43690dc5d9b7f1b4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

165.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 5f71bb635bdaa4ba48a9ac0b24b10e0f SHA-1: e0660c41702dbeb2b3092a95edf7ed6ce2a44742 SHA-256: 43690dc5d9b7f1b482a17e0e0d2724881bf36e42da7a67a17371c07ec1276f13
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.005 PowerShell T1204 User Execution

The critical heuristic firing indicates the 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 project contains no executable statements, the presence of the OLE vulnerability and the associated URL strongly suggest a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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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