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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61bb263adacd6cae…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

644.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 5ecf906db87f06b93ca540b3230edc23 SHA-1: 3b21ad417ffbb2b5f2aca9700238d8fe053ae3a7 SHA-256: 61bb263adacd6caee369a1cb22c170354181679d069aa66f4d39727b61fe1ee2
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The presence of an Excel 4.0 macro sheet (XLM) is a strong indicator of malicious intent, as these are often used for initial execution. The macro sheet contains calls to functions that appear to be attempting to download files from the provided URLs. Specifically, it references 'eletrofrios.com/0cgEbnyc/ork.html' and 'sitka.in/rbWExNYu/ork.html', likely to fetch a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 3

  • Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet uses dangerous capability functions high OLE_XLM_DANGEROUS_FN_STATIC
    Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet whose formulas reference two or more dangerous capability functions (e.g. CALL into a Win32 API such as URLDownloadToFile, EXEC to launch a process, REGISTER an external DLL procedure, or FWRITE/FOPEN to drop a file) with an Auto_Open / Auto_Close auto-execution name. This is the canonical XLM downloader/dropper shape and is recovered directly from the BIFF records, so it fires even when the full macro chain cannot be deobfuscated.
  • 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.
  • 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://eletrofrios.com/0cgEbnyc/ork.html Referenced by macro
    • https://sitka.in/rbWExNYu/ork.htmlReferenced by macro