Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · aace945912ecb62c

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

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

MD5: da7e43bc1741cd5b73a3e096caa582aa SHA-1: 3c265bd446a3952072baa5cda0e2fe2f84c89266 SHA-256: aace945912ecb62c2b6a3fd3803b476b06521a0d12f9e15542969b65adb6effa

110 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 load remote content. The embedded URL 'https://dealc.me/VXkzcf' is likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of a secondary embedded PDF with suspicious static findings further suggests a multi-stage attack. No VBA macros were found to contain executable statements, but the OLE object itself is the primary vector.

Heuristics 4

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 high 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.
PDF paints image(s) but contains no text operators info PDF_IMAGE_ONLY_LURE

PDF has 1 image XObject(s) and the content stream contains no text-emitting operators (BT/ET, Tj, TJ, ', ") in either raw bytes or decompressed streams — this is the screenshot-as-PDF pattern used to bypass text-based scanners and to deliver instructions purely through rendered pixels. It is informational unless paired with invisible links or risky URI context.

Extracted artifacts 2

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
`polyglot_child_pdf_off00080800.pdf` `2e2af7f0ca2d84c01caeb71e5b67a89fa9bbd3ba649ee34a6f94960b113acf57`	polyglot-child-pdf	Secondary PDF body inside ole container at offset 0x80800	434688 bytes

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