Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · 86e985895fb6d155

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.03 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: 48c40411ba277f1c9829871605366dc0 SHA-1: 8e2a93e0bd4e23b655de720b5d75f1e01420c17e SHA-256: 86e985895fb6d155d4d6c894c8d038b76f5e6db694ca0c59867ee43867d49f61

68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is an Excel spreadsheet that exploits CVE-2017-0199 via a URL moniker to download and execute a remote payload. The heuristic firing explicitly provides the malicious URL used for the download. No VBA macros were found to be executable, but the exploit itself is sufficient for initial compromise.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	1206 bytes

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