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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baef74b9443b5334…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.17 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ebb8217610dc2f28b659ea4fe81444f2 SHA-1: 7447816d50bfe2bad3b8b0c56287a4eb8fb4bbed SHA-256: baef74b9443b5334b1047e2f16c0f5d5242b6a7016d9e73ddac76c3d622d4345
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object, which attempts to load a remote resource from the URL https://link.saja.market/UWdeVy6xhG. This suggests the file acts as a downloader for a secondary malicious payload. No VBA macros were found to contain executable statements, but the presence of the OLE2Link object is sufficient evidence for the attack pattern.

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