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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48af4c0f1e68e4e5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ee719639287a9cd59fa17726bc872a69 SHA-1: e6eaccd09ec1992df1214ab3ba6ea01cc1217c33 SHA-256: 48af4c0f1e68e4e5648ae8d28740a5464aa418e4272710ed698b50eeb9e7cc6f
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME indicates the presence of an Excel 4.0 Auto_Open macro. The SE_ENABLE_LURE heuristic confirms the document attempts to trick the user into enabling macros. The extracted URLs, https://escolamundoazul.com.br/ntmQmwXnc6KC/ue.html and https://laresumeservice.com/wp7rTKrY/ue.html, are likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The XLM macro itself is truncated, but the presence of Auto_Open and the embedded URLs strongly suggest a downloader.

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 — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://escolamundoazul.com.br/ntmQmwXnc6KC/ue.html
    • https://laresumeservice.com/wp7rTKrY/ue.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
e0f9b32b2cf7d5bbad99732afb6eb8bf95619170305ebee6a87504bc690cca2a		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8209 bytes

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