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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b65858e9dc1c2ec…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

380.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 8217e6ec44d0bf3d7d4af9222dbead77 SHA-1: 58f0cb9ad1cc1984528b3d34aa6e61b5d0704369 SHA-256: 0b65858e9dc1c2ec3793fd5ea69eeb19dcc91cde0d76446e31065afc8b0b3a9a
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, indicated by the OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN heuristic. The macros are designed to execute automatically upon opening, as evidenced by the Auto_Open defined name. The document body contains a lure to enable macros, and the extracted URLs suggest a download location for a second-stage payload. The XLM macros likely use functions like RUN or CALL to execute downloaded files, potentially via rundll32.exe or regsvr32.exe.

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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