Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · a8cc7df9765fc46a

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

848.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: 4e1098a36c7039ccc00577fc20ccb5c6 SHA-1: 0700473d909f9f7dbe207bec9dbf804bbbe22eb8 SHA-256: a8cc7df9765fc46a9b6308e701c10f5d58511f878c7fdb3ede94773acc0a3387

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, a known vulnerability for remote code execution. This exploit leverages a URL moniker to download a secondary payload from the provided URL. Although no VBA code was found to be executable, the presence of the exploit and the external URL strongly suggest a malicious intent to download and execute further stages.

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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