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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e5383c601ae66ef…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

848.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: b1a2f8400ef5721f0734b4990875c428 SHA-1: 0156e2825393410708ea2df93d006ca7ac321627 SHA-256: 6e5383c601ae66ef69bf8f7d7edf6c6780340934f48baf84dbc123dfb191174a
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 via an OLE2Link object, which is designed to download and execute a remote payload from the provided URL. The VBA macros are present but do not contain executable statements, suggesting they are not the primary execution vector. The embedded URL is the primary indicator of compromise.

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://jfm.com.co/DIt?&wren=new&wetsuit=embarrassed&tulip=enthusiastic&birdhouse=pleasant&turtle=workable&multimedia=arrogant&blue=agonizing&slippers

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