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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 123eb02f95f815e2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

332.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 0e619d9ecb0cecf52e1d4bebe2499e06 SHA-1: 1a93a7fa8d7a9d08d565d4c6d5e5bdefd660633d SHA-256: 123eb02f95f815e207fb3a3fe2dc58ad4651b0c277739d65bff12bac68cab5bd
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This Excel 4.0 macro-enabled workbook contains an Auto_Open macro that executes a series of commands. The macro calls the RUN function with a URL, 'https://birdexim.com/ds/231120.gif', which is likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload. The use of the CALL function with obfuscated strings suggests an attempt to disguise the execution of system commands.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • XLM Auto_Open with dangerous formula APIs critical OLE_XLM_DANGEROUS_FN
    Excel 4.0 macro sheet contains an Auto_Open / Auto_Close entry and dangerous XLM formula APIs that can invoke programs, write files, or transfer control without VBA.
  • Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXEC
    Reference to ShellExecute API
  • 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.
  • 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://birdexim.com/ds/231120.gif

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
33b6a73d5f0d6eaa82513d86953f6aef905a69517ef33e4eba1db75f4a178a6f		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6298 bytes

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