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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51a5cde17896ffe7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

380.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 1bec5b0eee3890cf8b26fa4df795acbd SHA-1: ae5ed8ed1cdecca9ca438f39814b6891a20cfeee SHA-256: 51a5cde17896ffe7bab1d723b60726d282e266975732116ae7fcae76693a7e27
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet with an Auto_Open defined name, indicating that malicious code will execute upon opening. The presence of an 'enable lure' heuristic suggests the document attempts to trick the user into enabling macros. The extracted URLs likely serve as download locations for further payloads. The macro execution is the primary attack vector.

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://caiogabriel.com.br/tOKLlSLW/lena.html
    • https://bwctradex.com/BcotoLXTr1y/lena.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
d46ad6b52df62d280ddc3eb28f4fdfc78bc84dc99077b9aa50809affc4be6057
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8812 bytes