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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbe0119781b7ec22…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.25 MB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ccf71c1417aacdf2dfc9f8d57cf92686 SHA-1: a7c81a9a9b6cb893d78ce33ae6ea860a8c02e3f1 SHA-256: fbe0119781b7ec22c71e0dfe1d4c83e4db4193973da87734486dc08bc0259c17
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 load remote content. The extracted URL points to a remote loader, suggesting the file's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload. No VBA macros were found to be executable, but the OLE structure itself is the vector for exploitation.

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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