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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb560b7437a93de7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

761.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 1afc535222c2830c2d2a5c89f32f912b SHA-1: 6b32e4dabfca480be9b83ca9eb496760a4277728 SHA-256: fb560b7437a93de76376b62e7f644306d76e3330737861bbfcc0e0c7b57d8a51
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 attempts to load a remote resource from http://come.ac/70DgR. This is a common technique for delivering second-stage malware. Although the VBA project itself contains no executable statements, the OLE object's behavior is sufficient to indicate malicious intent. The file is an Excel spreadsheet, likely used as a lure.

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

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.