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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8200bd09f87c765b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

654.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 0f6a9ae54d189f3e3f254b2717d5fbc8 SHA-1: 0910e6c921a11cca2981c3f23e2ad172d1df1804 SHA-256: 8200bd09f87c765b8e85d4fca8bcfefc0f3143233f369ed961c85e85a62394e6
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2017-0199, which is a known vulnerability used to download and execute remote code. The embedded URL http://ir.cx/TLhxf is highly suspicious and likely points to the secondary payload. No VBA macros were found to be executable, but the presence of the exploit is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

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 http://ir.cx/TLhxf

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