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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8b22c32b0428b51…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

308.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2024-05-22
MD5: e72e4b4ed6163080c0557dc92537bc16 SHA-1: 5cc70775a3f883dfdb6f7cbdb28b63cc285fa425 SHA-256: d8b22c32b0428b51de14328dd727dc3212e98ce25c54f379ad2012b6aa9f6fd6
70 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 is designed to download and execute a remote payload from the URL http://bot.ax/ULOux. Although the VBA project contains no executable statements, the presence of the OLE2Link object and the embedded URL strongly suggest a malicious intent to download and run a second-stage exploit or malware. The file is an Excel spreadsheet, consistent with common delivery methods for this vulnerability.

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 http://bot.ax/ULOux

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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