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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06f0766a8f095500…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 65d439c2daa5dedb7dfe12f9e755a8b4 SHA-1: b43dc9e2bf5a49590202d5010286f526dce47511 SHA-256: 06f0766a8f095500ae3876539010f2517f85a914a8e820e294804ac102a5f5b2
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an Excel file containing Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros, including an Auto_Open entry, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The document body and extracted URLs suggest a lure to download a second-stage payload from either signifysystem.com or fcventasyservicios.cl. The presence of an 'enable lure' heuristic further supports that the document is designed to prompt the user to enable macros to execute the malicious code.

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://signifysystem.com/ceg7AX7oN0o/ue.html
    • https://fcventasyservicios.cl/k60jvjcT/ue.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
c7d4d2bead8580d5104e88300cefa6eb3ebffd421d1191db8449676bfb792ff2
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8209 bytes