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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae807193017b1f9f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

1.08 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 5c9e71f079fa7898e1072995ec0cc340 SHA-1: 6def3110406375acceb62b1574524008674e5b67 SHA-256: ae807193017b1f9f641c7a61d8c087e07e9295927213d5bac1332f4241d2c2b7
68 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, a known vulnerability for remote code execution. The heuristic explicitly identifies the exploit and extracts a URL from which a second-stage payload is likely downloaded. No VBA macros were found to be executable, but the OLE structure itself is the vector for exploitation.

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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