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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dce9ee203b96dc8d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

169.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 9b56dbc0d1e6bbba91ae85f217581298 SHA-1: 9474c5bdc7918dd0b3b60ff885482295eba779b6 SHA-256: dce9ee203b96dc8de0a36d4be1c96d2bca40ff70e4706bb2abda9c3feed7b37b
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 is designed to load remote content. The extracted URL, https://jamp.to/aZ4zdN, is highly suspicious and likely serves as the source for the secondary payload. Although the VBA project contains no executable statements, the presence of the OLE vulnerability and the associated URL strongly suggest a malicious intent to download and execute arbitrary code.

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