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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72fb8eeb0060e38d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 4888b300bf12a3a84139b2c01318b256 SHA-1: 2c19cfb15a79660da6322a5c91dce2d72a1ae8ff SHA-256: 72fb8eeb0060e38d0eab4162780c94c807528d2d5059b7a9ff69f7afe276f596
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is an Excel file containing Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros, indicated by the OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN heuristic. The macros are designed to execute automatically upon opening, as evidenced by the Auto_Open defined name. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a download lure, aiming to prompt the user to enable macros. The XLM macros likely download and execute 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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