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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 181cc175eb995624…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

847.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 2e68d1ee75c80ff94ea5babce1983058 SHA-1: 1fba12972479fa5c1b9b3d439677db33ea41e13b SHA-256: 181cc175eb995624c253251233f3e91cdc655fe2ffdaf6b1ea3db3b540411098
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2017-0199, which is used to download and execute a remote loader from the provided URL. Although VBA macros are present, they contain no executable statements, suggesting the exploit is directly leveraged by the OLE structure. The embedded URL is the primary indicator of the malicious payload's origin.

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 https://snxpay.io/6r2WOk8?&hospice=helpful&birdhouse=noiseless&september=standing&cradle=open&activity=didactic&artichoke=glossy&manhunt

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