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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f3c198be5e93b58…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

360.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2024-08-13
MD5: 1ae11bb3ddb39e8f7bc9fa678226be44 SHA-1: e9ba1bc78ca9cc28711a5976f9f95ce8126074a2 SHA-256: 6f3c198be5e93b5846000ab10205d08c4d19ef157d625a6cfd2e077bf4bc5959
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.005 Visual Basic

The critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object, which attempts to load a remote resource from the URL https://jio.cx/sazvah. This is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. Although the VBA project itself contains no executable statements, the OLE structure points directly to the malicious URL, suggesting a downloader or initial access vector.

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://jio.cx/sazvah

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