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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cc7a5fe2d2ffafd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

243.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2024-05-21
MD5: e1424a6dc9fa951366f2996cd537dd02 SHA-1: 967bf96dfb11dee4e1d711c809f8c9fedc29fa69 SHA-256: 4cc7a5fe2d2ffafda3791f0e9cced8f7fe430b598551c2a9277210e87e6df53b
70 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 attempts to download a remote payload from the URL http://isols.co/zXTgU. Although the VBA project itself contains no executable statements, the presence of the exploit and the embedded URL strongly suggest this file is a downloader for a second-stage malicious payload.

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://www.day.com/dam/1.0
    • http://isols.co/zXTgU
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/tiff/1.0/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/

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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