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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d8e80b762d2b855…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

629.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ed96095369f4d8e234417fc2760a7aed SHA-1: 58400e1f4c205804abb4c0a6eddfdf95fc605cce SHA-256: 7d8e80b762d2b855da74aa6b7f5aea8ce80f2b9c3f9c5c187dd29c107c74a9cb
68 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 pointing to a remote URL. This technique is commonly used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, https://verygoodpeopeleswithbestfeaturesbetterformebestkingswithbestofbsoo.busines@wedew.link/H4kNFW, is the primary indicator for the payload delivery. No VBA macros were found to be executable, but the presence of the OLE structure and the URL is sufficient for this assessment.

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://verygoodpeopeleswithbestfeaturesbetterformebestkingswithbestofbsoo.busines@wedew.link/H4kNFW���r���l���v�;�V����h9O�����J���+�c5;���Rܦu�MЫ�(b��

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