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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6ed3ec1d48911f0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

689.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: b79c6a15922566e61aadfb37174c0f4d SHA-1: 028597c8d50153898d21ed932ea8ae61dddb0511 SHA-256: d6ed3ec1d48911f03344b7165e7717702a58ad78ff2dc83824edc78e448c6860
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.005 PowerShell

The sample is an OLE file that exploits CVE-2017-0199, a known vulnerability for remote code execution. The heuristic firing indicates it uses URL Moniker to load a remote resource from 'https://nuak.link/rCyDRq'. Although VBA macros were present, they contained no executable statements, suggesting the exploit is delivered via the OLE structure itself rather than macro execution. The document body is heavily corrupted, but the presence of the URL and the CVE exploit firing strongly indicate a downloader or initial access mechanism.

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.
  • 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.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://nuak.link/rCyDRq���,M����T�Ȑ�0)��H

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