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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8629894040598720…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.19 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 90fa067ea5cd543d0570e84116698933 SHA-1: b2bd70b6e44b712ec4ac798a2aad071a8bb6d992 SHA-256: 862989404059872079bfbae0efde1e99d2043c300644e5f0091db79005c2300e
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an OLE file that exploits CVE-2017-0199, a known vulnerability for remote code execution. The heuristic explicitly points to a URL moniker that likely serves as a remote loader. Although no VBA code was extracted, the presence of the CVE exploit indicates a malicious intent to download and execute a second-stage payload from the specified URL.

Heuristics 2

  • 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.

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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