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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2b37d74215ba038…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

503.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2026-03-25
MD5: c126461d409428ba2503c7544cf17550 SHA-1: 8ee0b63163356dcfdc33266372117ac4003600cc SHA-256: f2b37d74215ba03828d877a7e2f59a6c1911db979e42caca16aa276ff94ed9ac
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 provided URL. The embedded URL is the primary indicator of the malicious payload's origin. Although no VBA macros were found to be executable, the presence of the CVE exploit suggests a remote code execution attempt.

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://014013117732/www.godaddy.comen-inpromosflash-saleisc=GOINDIA&countryview.cloudflare.filesecured.php

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