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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c47fe1e225e29eb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

1.18 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 0875164211953711cf11ac8b0c37cbd6 SHA-1: 838018663731a8d36cc32319cb7725914f310870 SHA-256: 6c47fe1e225e29eb87c789dba61e0e96ddec3a92bfec8d9fb9cc874f6b543615
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is an OLE file that exploits CVE-2017-0199, a known vulnerability for remote code execution. The heuristic explicitly mentions a URL moniker, indicating the file's intent to download and execute a secondary payload from the provided URL. This points to a downloader or dropper functionality.

Heuristics 2

  • 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.
  • 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://link.orai.io/6TY04V