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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d96b3ab60eef73a2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

794.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2026-03-24
MD5: 090290e3477e737c343531a7d0e94147 SHA-1: 464b235c98d555073b1fe355962f0a0ac45ef02b SHA-256: d96b3ab60eef73a2047bb1adef62a69e072342ecfa78ee48c13ea3efc8254430
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample exploits CVE-2017-0199, a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Office that allows for remote code execution via OLE linking. The embedded URL http://107.172.135.4/ is likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. Although VBA macros are present, they do not contain executable statements, indicating the exploit relies on the OLE vulnerability itself rather than macro execution.

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://%31%30%37%2E%31%37%32%2E%31%33%35%2E%34/

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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