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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f114b58d5a66ad7a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

1.08 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2026-03-10
MD5: dc7e263db476338048458409bc7abb2c SHA-1: 81f5f50e61886bacc617926413254cb8f7f94b2a SHA-256: f114b58d5a66ad7aa123f5acbfb76d46d7d476c4b5b244a663a2f2cdd1c95a64
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 pointing to a remote URL. This technique is commonly used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL http://0xB91D0A79 is the primary indicator for the remote resource. No VBA code was found to be executable, but the exploit itself is sufficient for initial compromise.

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://0xB91D0A79

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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