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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32e55fb59c0189c6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

65.9 KB Created: 2022-01-17 17:40:35 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 3b47dbe16a8cbb76cf340ad881be14f5 SHA-1: cbd433044d73061b33bcb11ef95d0289e547f7da SHA-256: 32e55fb59c0189c6545d309e3eb3166296bdc57bdb364ae79a2b0f20d4595660
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Service Execution: Service Execution T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The file is an Excel 4.0 macro-enabled spreadsheet. It contains an Auto_Open macro that is configured to execute a command to download and run a script from the URL 'http://0xc12a24f5/c.html' using mshta. The document body explicitly instructs the user to 'Enable Editing' and 'Enable Content', which is a common lure to bypass security warnings and execute malicious macros.

Heuristics 3

  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
0807f652a36752efcd354ce3c536f2fe7ed4cd53a3ff1787c33acb378dda90a0		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 1073 bytes

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