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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad0fc61ffd51acce…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

429.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-03-08
MD5: 69c0666f1f76fe3f9ff84cb42571a12e SHA-1: 04dccc9faefe79862ac320df07d15b4f3c4beada SHA-256: ad0fc61ffd51accec08c7193f30b497b1eedc82c22b9b8aab434e4c08e761239
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an Excel file that exploits CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object to download a remote payload from the specified URL. The VBA project contains no executable statements, but the exploit itself is sufficient to indicate malicious intent. The embedded URL is the primary indicator of compromise.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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://yyyyyYYYYUUSUUUUUUU3243242UUU23U423U4UU2UWWWWW8W8W7W8WWWWWWW878W8W8WW78WWWW87W87W88WEEW787888W88W8W@198.46.174.164/98..........................................98...................doc

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