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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f94c3384ccf8ea5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.69 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: a2af96136ab62917e0cbd2163571043e SHA-1: be58fe59f1a6fad99b5aa3a0659b33d7e4b9b659 SHA-256: 5f94c3384ccf8ea5f738dc557e6c233e6d26500376191a9ea0a721cd32abaa8a
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample leverages the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability, which is known to be used for remote code execution. The embedded URL points to a suspicious domain, likely serving as a distribution point for a second-stage payload. Although the VBA macros themselves do not contain executable statements, the OLE structure indicates the exploit is present and active.

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://givemebestchoicetobecomefantasicthingsforbestthingstodoformebestcheckiog.business@smollq.cc/aqKFBk

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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