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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 651c1273734d972c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.46 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: b5ba18c7524c2d3d0341ca5f95c919ff SHA-1: ec93e9c0623db7b681d308272bb675574c249cd2 SHA-256: 651c1273734d972c7cd2ce9ccd89e555cf947a8a60d5e5de70ddb9cb15b7b65f
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an Excel file that leverages the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability. This vulnerability allows the document to act as a remote loader, downloading and executing a secondary payload from the URL 'https://getabre.com/Upsox2'. Although VBA macros are present, they do not contain executable statements, indicating the exploit relies on the OLE object vulnerability rather than macro execution.

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://getabre.com/Upsox2

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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