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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b75178a2d67e96cc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

1.15 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 7a6524806d644bebd3ebbebf0c44474f SHA-1: b3e0a2c41b0dbdf4665f0eab85c992f356c616bb SHA-256: b75178a2d67e96cc830c1126a4a572662aa6bd0224194799981664fa94e9746c
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains a critical heuristic indicating exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object. This vulnerability is used to load a remote resource from the URL 'https://sorkale.me/cr342S'. Although VBA macros are present, they do not contain executable statements, suggesting the exploit is directly embedded within the OLE structure.

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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