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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 546f9c7dae6eeeee…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.10 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: a7c4c08deeb2abe03a4b8560e62fa6ef SHA-1: f9f1d0f1b48b8ba3524ae279a7b1ac9b030a2d57 SHA-256: 546f9c7dae6eeeee51110adaa1c504435313b452ef0ecb632ba289da65616720
68 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 is designed to download and execute a remote payload from a provided URL. The extracted URL is the primary indicator of compromise. No VBA macros were found to be executable, but the OLE structure itself is the vector for exploitation.

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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