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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0906924a562ec89…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

200.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 11253c165fc1fedb2cc009f693cde547 SHA-1: 0310b13c46234dd0b71064833af54d4f67e06015 SHA-256: b0906924a562ec8917a79e509b19938025bb43a29e2801ea5842bb1395e1a92c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2017-0199 indicates that the OLE object is designed to exploit this vulnerability. The embedded URL, https://provit.uk/FoaEVO?&inlay=debonair&leo=alive&hurry=rare&pusher=barbarous&whorl=curved&winter, is likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The VBA macro, while not containing executable statements directly, is part of the exploit chain. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file.

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.
  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.Trojan-aa0b8f388d8573cd-aa0b8f388d8573cd-9950439-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.Trojan-aa0b8f388d8573cd-aa0b8f388d8573cd-9950439-0
  • 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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