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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29a33945541083fb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 4701067ce4474fe38c5133531de9fd31 SHA-1: 77b130742488c4ecc6a516bca94dc88268d1f0c7 SHA-256: 29a33945541083fbdcc4949a2b5e8d92f57f2b9c337fda59b7a252ef9b225542
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 Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open defined name, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The presence of an 'enable lure' heuristic suggests the document attempts to trick the user into enabling macros. The embedded URLs are likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The macros themselves were too large to fully analyze but the presence of Auto_Open and the lure heuristic are sufficient for this assessment.

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://silvertoncc.com/ys1Btp80hx/th.html
    • https://christleadersworld.com/1TaIPHnbwbNV/th.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
740337535414e50f998f7a71055f9de0e2208abc42faca490883ba1d9c48deb1		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8349 bytes

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