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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21b240c5af05eb2b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

192.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 2e5c3f6e341b2b06802a5dd491279007 SHA-1: 1889f5c88e10c7b1d9159f3dca7b39a153c38086 SHA-256: 21b240c5af05eb2bed5378cb48035d82219aa0708434cb49ad60b0632e37b7bf
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1059.001 PowerShell

The file contains embedded Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros, indicated by the OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN and OLE_XLM_DANGEROUS_FN heuristics. The dangerous formula API RUN=0 suggests the macro is designed to execute external commands. The embedded URL http://gogorv.net/parseopml/intel. is highly suspicious and likely serves as a command and control server or a download location for a secondary payload. The document body text is fragmented and does not provide clear context, but the presence of XLM macros and a suspicious URL strongly suggests a malicious downloader.

Heuristics 3

  • XLM Auto_Open with dangerous formula APIs high 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.
  • 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 http://www.iec.ch
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
e28030e9d0d14a61d3f2dd5f3a502fe7843136dbc944ec7883cb7b380a59fbd9		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 12125 bytes

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