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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d63eba4ef2da4ef…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

600.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: b3a4dad414b683e71cc5a43103cb4f6c SHA-1: 2632340f6e7396d35fdb6cca25b17c38d3144076 SHA-256: 8d63eba4ef2da4efb846b76e1165589c6454d62be2cacdb33a25fc2b86da3840
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.005 Service Execution: Visual Basic

The critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object, which is designed to load remote content. The extracted URL, https://kutt.uk/X4esZc, is highly suspicious and likely serves as the initial download location for a secondary payload. Although the VBA macros themselves do not contain executable statements, the presence of the OLE vulnerability and the external URL strongly suggest a remote loading attack pattern.

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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