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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04b05b43b8af25bd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

380.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 4fc676cab6a2880abd4b38280acab001 SHA-1: 7ea4930ada7e13640b9ce53f55451be32798d389 SHA-256: 04b05b43b8af25bd99327a99a786b8fd12323b53a4224edd45b339019d0d95f1
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

This Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro-enabled workbook contains an Auto_Open macro, a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening. The document body contains obfuscated URLs and commands that appear to be constructing calls to download and execute a second-stage payload using rundll32.exe or regsvr32.exe. The presence of an 'enable lure' heuristic further suggests the document is designed to trick users into enabling macros.

Heuristics 4

  • Excel 4.0 Auto_Open defined name critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME
    oletools recovered an Auto_Open / Auto_Close entry from an Excel 4.0 macro sheet. The raw BIFF name can be tokenized or partially opaque to byte-string checks, but the recovered macro listing confirms the workbook has an XLM auto-execution entry.
  • Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet present medium OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN
    Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet sub-stream — XLM is rarely seen in modern legitimate workbooks and was a major Office malware vector during 2020-2022.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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://caiogabriel.com.br/tOKLlSLW/lena.html
    • https://bwctradex.com/BcotoLXTr1y/lena.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
d46ad6b52df62d280ddc3eb28f4fdfc78bc84dc99077b9aa50809affc4be6057		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8812 bytes

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