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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6da54f864f3b9564…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 0ca727ce6d3f725fcb5f156aaf08f8cc SHA-1: 22e71288522aae23f3aaeb1bba2e8df2bafa6479 SHA-256: 6da54f864f3b9564e671b0807891979bacd7d8b487fe596a1ecaa4f4a92db94d
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is an Excel 4.0 macro sheet (XLM) that contains an Auto_Open macro, indicating it will execute automatically when the workbook is opened. It also contains heuristics for an 'enable lure', suggesting it prompts the user to enable macros. The extracted URLs are likely used to download a second-stage payload. The presence of an Auto_Open entry and the lure strongly suggest a malicious intent to execute arbitrary code.

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://signifysystem.com/ceg7AX7oN0o/ue.html
    • https://fcventasyservicios.cl/k60jvjcT/ue.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
c7d4d2bead8580d5104e88300cefa6eb3ebffd421d1191db8449676bfb792ff2
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8209 bytes