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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 557d94a595dfd264…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

551.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ae76952b69efecdcbfa80122ee621178 SHA-1: c0ee12b54197b9abffce38e4f0c33692a0d18f44 SHA-256: 557d94a595dfd264e53c2fbe6f73ffbb4abba8864228cd905a904d7fb8cf3536
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an OLE file that exploits CVE-2017-0199 via a URL moniker to download a remote payload from http://00000015353204525/httpswww.tcs.comwhat-we-dotcs-research-and-innovation-group-comapnies.php. Although the VBA project contains no executable statements, the critical heuristic firing indicates the exploit mechanism. The file's purpose is to act as a downloader for further malicious activity.

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://00000015353204525/httpswww.tcs.comwhat-we-dotcs-research-and-innovation-group-comapnies.php

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