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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74423c8236cd5057…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

165.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ad9550ee6ece8322501ed92d374d3928 SHA-1: d0617e5cb90b4db4fcf2269ffd8228b9ca4f89af SHA-256: 74423c8236cd5057af8e4ffbf84fdcbb34f5e6dc8f8dc0520c685c7fd6bc100a
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros with an Auto_Open entry, which is a critical finding indicating automatic execution upon opening. The macros utilize dangerous functions like `RUN` and `REGISTER`, and attempt to construct a URL from concatenated strings, including `http://www.chipmania.it/mails/open`. This suggests the macro's primary purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload, likely exploiting the system for further compromise.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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 http://www.iec.ch
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
f72194058b5d1131257adb8047540ae2ca5a2f68446b9907dc98eadcb54b4687		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 1999 bytes

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