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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 730705f9be1172ec…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

413.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 550826131a16a63e0e20a7d80d338911 SHA-1: ea6d8eaad0afb34c52828053c580ba6ca2ecdc65 SHA-256: 730705f9be1172eccdf0d627974d279e137d706cc6c11a87f50846b0b0bd93db
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://topkale.me/Dn677h'. Although the VBA project contains no executable statements, the presence of the CVE exploit and the embedded URL strongly suggests a malicious intent to download and run a second-stage payload. The file is an Excel spreadsheet, and the VBA code is present, indicating a potential for 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://topkale.me/Dn677h

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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