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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c0070a2fb2bbed…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

415.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-08-04
MD5: ddf406eef9e267656e499eec7043cead SHA-1: c630c6f93e2b6fece8d7c5780df5b700677029b8 SHA-256: a7c0070a2fb2bbedc30267e0bea7bced6134082efff2eb09f383a00e1cc6e605
132 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 via a URL Moniker to download a remote DOC file. The embedded PDF content and the VBA macros, while not directly executable, indicate a complex, multi-stage infection chain. The primary IOC is the URL used for the initial download, which is likely to host the next stage of the payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://103.150.31.73/igfx/1/0002390000000239390000%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%239230000000000000%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23%23000002202202020002000000.DOC

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes
stream_003_off00005f60.bin
2998a126f4fa11ceb265371a5f7968ec18bc4692a32631a544232dc74040021f
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x5F60 252488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0002b17d.bin
68d167e68895a344f3603a4efd0d8438eb8fdebe759cee48f2b4adf75c76c961
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2B17D 12100 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0002cf95.bin
50551000b9f90b3f445ee94749557d9ddf96697a74984b3ccf3d2bae66910750
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2CF95 15820 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off00000e00.pdf
230dd3424d65654d61de04a8799797ab958066152f76116cd50ff9e36a651b32
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside ole container at offset 0xE00 421376 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off00006400.pdf
34546f795c1dd132064fb493e4162ef74b6cc9456d6efcc7aa6e0643fff3c31b
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside ole container at offset 0x6400 399360 bytes