Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · 671d3228293fc26c

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

70.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-05-27

MD5: 19b4bb88218e8f429aa3e1d0dbf3def2 SHA-1: 90d4e0ece34079ff1ef9003a696f9c080d19fc03 SHA-256: 671d3228293fc26c11e0e83b10f16b07185ad3c2d92d778beb16d8c12ff91374

140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The critical heuristics indicate the presence of Excel 4.0 macros with an Auto_Open entry, which is a known technique for executing malicious code. The extracted URLs suggest the macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The use of XLM macros points to the T1059.005 (Visual Basic) technique, and the overall execution flow aligns with T1203 (Exploitation for Client Execution).

Heuristics 3

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.
XLM Auto_Open with dangerous formula APIs critical OLE_XLM_DANGEROUS_FN

Excel 4.0 macro sheet contains an Auto_Open / Auto_Close entry and dangerous XLM formula APIs that can invoke programs, write files, or transfer control without VBA.
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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `699e21f010c7c5f5713063f52e691ec519f766e81393f8793f7a585cd43d5349`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	7635 bytes

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