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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b864240dc0a0aae6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

1.54 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 027baaf0fe05d8451a2e32c3147d6fcf SHA-1: cd2b1162587496c30779596aa257cee6f0b83e1f SHA-256: b864240dc0a0aae6cfb508b72285627ecd0b4b7d7cfb48f1da21c66b6b61be33
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing indicates the exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object with a URL moniker. This technique is used to download and execute a remote payload from the specified URL. Although the VBA project contains no executable statements, the presence of the OLE object and the URL points to a malicious intent to load external content.

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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