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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b7d9c9eb2a20545…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.15 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 7e57ae37203e2354ff9f36c1f38ca3ec SHA-1: ce713c9178c2bd8ac285def8001d908980168bbb SHA-256: 7b7d9c9eb2a2054592422d8c774d93cca3130c6af7e448a09dea32f94c2781b1
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 payload from the URL https://sorkale.me/fLLd8Q. Although VBA macros are present, they do not contain executable statements, suggesting the exploit relies on the OLE vulnerability itself rather than macro execution. The file is an Excel spreadsheet, and the presence of VBA code points to the use of Visual Basic for scripting.

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://sorkale.me/fLLd8Q

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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