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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc4eeaa2989e05c5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

327.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2024-08-12
MD5: 9c41ee4133b835881e469354efe68818 SHA-1: 1a9e303f1aa95860128dab41bbbe80a22612f872 SHA-256: dc4eeaa2989e05c525cf72427c2b103b23905fdaad573c5135968d1666d8fb1a
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 attempts to load a remote resource from the URL https://exi.link/iCOKsx. Although the VBA project itself contains no executable statements, the presence of the OLE2Link exploit and the embedded URL strongly suggests this file acts as a downloader for a secondary malicious payload.

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://exi.link/iCOKsx

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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