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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca1308388e528ba1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

848.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 0f798332bacadf55df2c01773c87a4be SHA-1: f989a3c3ff21a210abac538ad61489b2db402462 SHA-256: ca1308388e528ba11463e55408cc367131b43475e02212564f973cadbbac71bd
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, https://snxpay.io/LcZtVCs?&grip=flippant&feedback=determined&futon=eager&age=nonstop&friction=adjoining&behest=statuesque&sculpture=mute&king, is highly suspicious and likely serves as the initial download point for a secondary stage payload. Although the VBA project itself contains no executable statements, the presence of the CVE exploit and the external URL strongly suggest a malicious intent to download and execute arbitrary code.

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