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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e29e7a08de27010…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.04 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-10-06
MD5: c3ba80b269e2156648cdf0cef7e81e76 SHA-1: e1d6a5c46efe60882cf99805b02a21cfad719005 SHA-256: 5e29e7a08de2701012224480fee050bfe060061c78203bbcdf76d1d4a360cda6
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 secondary payload from the provided URL. Although the VBA project contains no executable statements, the presence of the OLE vulnerability and the embedded URL strongly suggests a downloader or dropper functionality. The sample is likely an Excel spreadsheet designed to exploit this vulnerability to fetch and execute further malicious content.

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://103.182.16.23/250/1/IOI0OIOoioi0ooooi00IOIOoi0OoI00IIoioi0000%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23000oi0ioio0OIOI0ioooI0IOioiOI0ioII%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%2300000000.dOC

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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