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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65402e2b77e5ec64…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.10 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 2f160c13c347204a093bfd1ed0347784 SHA-1: 24e4558f3f577d3044191aadbc5274f616ad1a56 SHA-256: 65402e2b77e5ec64e982f7391e2ad08e2fcc5bd047e167b2f1b5875d7a5afe5b
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2017-0199, which is used to download and execute a remote loader from the URL https://go.halpindev.com/N2n7HH. Although the VBA macros themselves contain no executable statements, the presence of the OLE2Link exploit points to a malicious document designed to download and run a second-stage payload. The VBA code is likely a placeholder or boilerplate.

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/N2n7HH

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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