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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4795f69e13b23724…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.04 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: bf0f8d7e895df54aeb6f19778b02e41d SHA-1: 513b34dbb7cb8721b56837a0f0c3dfa9295c8071 SHA-256: 4795f69e13b2372467b70982e3c6df24c5253ef1df7219e708d0737a1de22d30
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.005 PowerShell T1071.001 Web Protocols: HTTP

The critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object, which attempts to download a payload from the URL 'https://runty.link/6W2EHv'. Although no VBA macros were found to be executable, the presence of the OLE2Link exploit strongly suggests a remote code execution attempt. The file is an Excel spreadsheet, a common delivery mechanism for such exploits.

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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