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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 297ab45fa971fa08…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

525.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2026-05-23
MD5: 71dc385e706253a423307b5307ea73a3 SHA-1: 5be47b4313cad1a38372093060aa78ceb38c23ac SHA-256: 297ab45fa971fa08bd3f10ea58448d6ee82abc0fbc444571f78f0705a0e2b28d
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The presence of an Excel 4.0 macro sheet (XLM) and a lure to enable macros strongly suggests a malicious intent. The embedded URLs likely point to the download location for a second-stage payload. The XLM macro sheet contains commands that appear to be related to downloading and executing files, indicated by 'LDownloadFil' and 'rundll32'.

Heuristics 5

  • XLM Auto_Open workbook with payload URL or enable-content lure critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_PAYLOAD_LURE
    Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet with Auto_Open / Auto_Close and also exposes a payload URL or enable-content lure in the OLE bytes. This combination is a high-confidence XLM downloader/social-engineering pattern even when formula recovery cannot decode the full macro chain.
  • Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet uses dangerous capability functions high OLE_XLM_DANGEROUS_FN_STATIC
    Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet whose formulas reference two or more dangerous capability functions (e.g. CALL into a Win32 API such as URLDownloadToFile, EXEC to launch a process, REGISTER an external DLL procedure, or FWRITE/FOPEN to drop a file) with an Auto_Open / Auto_Close auto-execution name. This is the canonical XLM downloader/dropper shape and is recovered directly from the BIFF records, so it fires even when the full macro chain cannot be deobfuscated.
  • 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://kashishbd.com/qLQ59E1q2/solo.html In document text (OLE body)
    • https://maatdeur.com/aTmGQK0DBT/solo.htmlIn document text (OLE body)

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