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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 622ce68030eb8a37…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

1.01 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: d52004eb066702135f85166f165f73e8 SHA-1: b279994b476b8c50fad5827b7844161742359ae1 SHA-256: 622ce68030eb8a37d438b852ef91f79ca62f249206c4af4f2b49b68dbd45638f
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an Excel file that exploits CVE-2017-0199, a known vulnerability for remote code execution. The heuristic explicitly mentions a URL, 'https://runty.link/PK6UtB', which is likely used to download a secondary payload. Although the VBA project contains no executable statements, the exploit itself is sufficient to indicate malicious intent.

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://runty.link/PK6UtB

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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