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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfb27e48282a83ec…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

659.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2026-06-13
MD5: c70983579f5a6d8f010fa43fb1e80c90 SHA-1: 2af9d44fd33d3a79acf9f8a42f6d340204e4e5c8 SHA-256: dfb27e48282a83ec3be4a97b9e6cd9bfe0b4af2a9ecc78cac0c1f469e06db7a5
126 Risk Score

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • VBA project contains no executable statements info OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains a VBA project, but extracted modules only contain attributes/options/comments and no executable statements.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfontshttp://www.fonts.comMicrosoft In document text (OLE body)
    • http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.aspxIn document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes
SHA-256: 7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisWorkbook"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{00020819-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = True

Attribute VB_Name = "Sheet1"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{00020820-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = True

Attribute VB_Name = "Sheet2"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{00020820-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = True

Attribute VB_Name = "Sheet3"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{00020820-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
stream_001_off0001d484.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1D484 285576 bytes
SHA-256: 9599658cc9eae50662a589134de51ec670e648f453a28cffaa4d13a581396cbb
stream_018_off00077c98.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x77C98 66548 bytes
SHA-256: cab0eabf04a5d34936562832ff53bf107c823929526a3b58826cc1b60b8c2bbc
font_01_sfnt_off00073fc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73FC0 40548 bytes
SHA-256: 5e68e88c987c54e64a4d101ad3db57add9e4929aeec402e4fee53d1cd7aa537a
font_03_sfnt_off0007eec7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EEC7 56496 bytes
SHA-256: dcf6f0923ad448731206952ff57c4d2b3e8620fc6972598ab1bd23d28e62ab42
font_04_sfnt_off000845f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x845F5 5220 bytes
SHA-256: 31710cdfd216f38fb46a851db560161e19419f08661279aff779873a436d680d
polyglot_child_pdf_off00001600.pdf polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside ole container at offset 0x1600 669184 bytes
SHA-256: 99523edc8002e1db804c83229a4a8c10e7d3888b821ff51fd94e0195f6f0cf4a