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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48d71e60a078d27c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

559.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-02-22
MD5: 54d1179897c62aa13da3bec02fb7d662 SHA-1: fe5eaacba23e33527f153f31bf2562ec656dbee2 SHA-256: 48d71e60a078d27cdac4b17e579d09cf88ad60706e9cb4872d68676de211a343
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.005 Visual Basic

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_0199 indicates that this OLE document is designed to act as a remote loader. It attempts to download a secondary document from the URL http://212.87.204.200/O-O.doc, likely to execute further malicious code. The presence of VBA macros, though not containing executable statements directly, supports the overall structure of a macro-enabled malicious document.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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://212.87.204.200/O-O.doc

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