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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b1a779da19c8a9d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 4b9f5ab49d06e58d733eca4764d29dbb SHA-1: 6965b84a20b851916f03e50d7d7e84ceb84c0a43 SHA-256: 1b1a779da19c8a9d97ad15a1da320ad5b61d51eb63a55aff2bb7dcbbe1ae480a
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an Excel 4.0 macro-enabled spreadsheet that contains an Auto_Open macro. The document body and extracted macro content indicate the presence of embedded URLs, specifically 'https://smartpalakatva.com/edQsUZOLlE/th.html' and 'https://pilstlcommodities.com/Ov4FlB3lpy/th.html'. The 'SE_ENABLE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document prompts the user to enable macros, a common tactic for malware delivery. The Auto_Open macro likely uses these URLs to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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://smartpalakatva.com/edQsUZOLlE/th.html
    • https://pilstlcommodities.com/Ov4FlB3lpy/th.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
e61304013e31eadd8bf35fc5d3e6cbadd61463966f2a2d09ae24f65eb0ee3106		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8349 bytes

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