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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a563257161e5c394…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

98.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: b8fe6365e4a55cb70d0b9c457a7a7099 SHA-1: da353f9118f9d6c3a6eeea1891a3b8e0e89742d1 SHA-256: a563257161e5c3947e4ea5669e1ef5eafbe67d5049816de47313ada6f299ac10
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object, which is designed to download and execute a remote payload from a provided URL. The extracted URL is the primary indicator of compromise. 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes

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