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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dc497b3b76bed69…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

1.04 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 526d326bc000db7bc219fc21753116fd SHA-1: 383f85e555833a9dda656a1cc652b2ae38dc9ecb SHA-256: 5dc497b3b76bed6983c17cef8ff4160b043f4276c10739599e4d06dab20d8ac0
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2017-0199, which is a known vulnerability used to download and execute remote code. The embedded URL is the primary indicator for the second-stage payload. While VBA macros are present, they do not contain executable statements, suggesting the exploit is directly leveraging the OLE object vulnerability.

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 https://go.halpindev.com/5MsTmx?&building=embarrassed&january

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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