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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c666cabe0659ee8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 33d503cfc96e99c6fef60d4f338e01d3 SHA-1: 5720da88eac92f8239913f1fcdebad8132cfc2ae SHA-256: 5c666cabe0659ee8e791811989f9315a6c8a368f488a91c7d08f98b9a27cc5d0
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is an Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro-enabled workbook. It contains an Auto_Open entry, indicating that macros will execute automatically upon opening. The document body and extracted macro content suggest it attempts to lure the user into enabling macros. The XLM macros are designed to download a second-stage payload from the URLs: https://mayread.com/aXfFF8qdsV/th.html and https://tpcsv.neosj.why3s.tw/XjHoDakG/th.html.

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://mayread.com/aXfFF8qdsV/th.html
    • https://tpcsv.neosj.why3s.tw/XjHoDakG/th.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
7758cbebef832a37ce0a327fd7d893202195f03ba9b854edef74b19dbb11678f		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8349 bytes

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