Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · 4aac2e5d410f11d2

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: 3ec0edb00fb9fdb26b3f7d903b9ad303 SHA-1: 8ff81c7a38b5ab40be91a119c1309de9dae379c5 SHA-256: 4aac2e5d410f11d2cb77ee57a00e3d7f1db123f4d709d7d8907fac13ccac59f4

102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains embedded Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros, specifically an Auto_Open entry, indicating an attempt to automatically execute code upon opening. The presence of a 'Macro/content-enable lure' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into enabling these macros. The embedded URLs are likely used to download and execute a secondary payload. Confidence is high due to the clear presence of auto-execution macros and a lure, but the exact payload and family are unknown.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `740337535414e50f998f7a71055f9de0e2208abc42faca490883ba1d9c48deb1`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	8349 bytes

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