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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8635f40168f9958a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.68 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 5bc08449692f6704444ae8ca46124059 SHA-1: 8a26080896e974e43c4988787c186aeaab81f806 SHA-256: 8635f40168f9958a3c8eaa57982dab0821989f390f4c374b070006cb391fc42e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.005 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_0199 indicates the OLE file uses a URL Moniker to load a remote payload from the specified URL. The presence of an embedded PDF with suspicious static findings further suggests a multi-stage attack. No VBA macros were found to contain executable statements, but the primary exploit vector is clear.

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.
    URL https://link.takusuki.com/I4p1o6
  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
    URL http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
  • 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes
stream_014_off0003f52b.bin
b0a7e7055d5b66edffe76c7b1f32ec80318d696df6181f1536f27aa69517872f		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3F52B 566620 bytes
stream_015_off0006f1fe.bin
0d5715bfb4def94d644e408c5ed714ea2ac557b061d036e7fdcf0a2bf1c990e2		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x6F1FE 398152 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000882ce.bin
ff37b045be3591e8cfbfa76f5dec51bee78deccafa1dc391d1edb36502c7f815		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x882CE 346068 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off000b0600.pdf
bd6ae1c24d90ac603c9396bd85ec758abb093dc9c84833fef4f8c5db43c2f009		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside ole container at offset 0xB0600 1036800 bytes

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