Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · 4e916003f84a12a5

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

839.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: 8a607aecee0aefa7b5f29806e99cd9cc SHA-1: a8d82e9a22618509c1da7fa8c4f1fb8e58c96e83 SHA-256: 4e916003f84a12a5463a8353a9bf21ae33db78e51c5a294e160b6b489e8957f8

150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.005 Visual Basic

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2017-0199 indicates the sample is designed to exploit this vulnerability via a URL moniker. The embedded PDF also shows suspicious static findings, suggesting it may contain further malicious content or serve as a lure. The NOP sled further supports the presence of shellcode.

Heuristics 5

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.
NOP sled detected high SC_NOP_SLED

Found 20+ consecutive 0x90 bytes
Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings high 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.
PDF paints image(s) but contains no text operators info PDF_IMAGE_ONLY_LURE

PDF has 1 image XObject(s) and the content stream contains no text-emitting operators (BT/ET, Tj, TJ, ', ") in either raw bytes or decompressed streams — this is the screenshot-as-PDF pattern used to bypass text-based scanners and to deliver instructions purely through rendered pixels. It is informational unless paired with invisible links or risky URI context.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	1206 bytes
`polyglot_child_pdf_off00041800.pdf` `1a2df7d0cb4fcadfa5564767dc0b0302eda522b7ab6925730021639b9a852e2b`	polyglot-child-pdf	Secondary PDF body inside ole container at offset 0x41800	590848 bytes

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