Xls.Dropper.Agent-9371368-0 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e98211810e196e1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

67.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: ef3d0db8c4468f045a1f6773df814a25 SHA-1: 1094c12d3b6ad53e997250934482a4f00dcb3091 SHA-256: 2e98211810e196e149973f5126f05d89f3c916663261434ebc6737fe4f16cdd6
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Xls.Dropper.Agent-9371368-0 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV heuristic and high-severity heuristic for encrypted Excel 4.0 macros indicate the presence of malicious macro code. The file is identified as a dropper, suggesting its primary purpose is to download and execute additional malware. The presence of macro sheets points to a likely initial access vector via spearphishing attachment.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Xls.Dropper.Agent-9360468-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Dropper.Agent-9360468-0
  • Encrypted Excel 4.0 macro sheet high OLE_XLM_ENCRYPTED_MACROSHEET
    Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet and BIFF FILEPASS encryption. Password-protected XLM macro sheets, especially the default Excel password path, are a common malware evasion pattern because static formula extraction may fail until the workbook is decrypted.
  • 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.