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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e009b7e5fc302eb9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

534.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ecbe7ea86fa6953f128935e4f43f52f2 SHA-1: 4916a3f361da187af84749456431de9d9310937d SHA-256: e009b7e5fc302eb9ecb23292d4f68b370aa392aa6390e8a33d36da5c90a10b11
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 download and execute a remote payload from the provided URL. The VBA macros were present but contained no executable statements, suggesting they were not the primary infection vector. The extracted URL is the highest priority IOC.

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

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