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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2521a8e07f18440f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

380.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ce87ebb1becf23c94b2c2a599bc95e0a SHA-1: 0c41d92d0bc692f70f763759f0d750bdf27ac23d SHA-256: 2521a8e07f18440fa351fad15b6c3d386d418fab8e42bc2838ce0452d4d3acd0
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an Excel spreadsheet containing embedded Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros, specifically an Auto_Open defined name, which are designed to execute automatically when the document is opened. The presence of a 'Macro/content-enable lure' heuristic indicates the document likely prompts the user to enable macros. The XLM macros are likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload from one of the embedded URLs. Confidence is slightly reduced due to the lack of specific family indicators.

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 — context-specific rules above attribute URLs they actually evaluated; this rule lists URLs that were present in the bytes but were not otherwise tied to a specific finding.
    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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