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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52e18d10d78559cc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: f31f8e89a4ea4908558b3d7ee33df69d SHA-1: 0658a2b4293c26cc1c6fdcde3cf2c15bd78abaa4 SHA-256: 52e18d10d78559ccf2d957915d528ca0ee28c7d235f9d736bd5c9f1a3d0c7a02
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro-enabled spreadsheet. It contains an Auto_Open macro, which is a common technique for automatic execution upon opening. The document body and extracted URLs indicate an attempt to lure the user into enabling macros, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload from the provided URLs. The XLM macro sheet is truncated, but the presence of the Auto_Open entry and the embedded URLs strongly suggest this malicious intent.

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://stateoftheartacademy.com.br/E4V8njAb2/ue.html
    • https://dsafarm.com/h03itpGP/ue.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
e808156aa76369abc653ef5da0e4637a11444d74c8ce4e627b8f3942d60b3178		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8209 bytes

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