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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e74c2574e6cf6f5f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

838.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 3966472b911e0e9749f97f8ab6ef5213 SHA-1: d50d449a37a00ba8e1865202d5ccba3d2add10a4 SHA-256: e74c2574e6cf6f5f8ea0fd68ba3122ae141f7562658640a742ea3418ca2af648
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical heuristic firing indicates the exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 via an OLE2Link object. This technique is used to download and execute a remote payload from the provided URL. The URL 'https://snxpay.io/HlYYCSk?&dew=bawdy&embossing=worthless&tear=needy&pastor=mysterious&objective=hysterical&detainment=scary&console' is the primary indicator of the malicious payload's origin. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Heuristics 1

  • 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.