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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74fda840da119b7f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 98f9f5aafd613ed8787caf6170f6cc7d SHA-1: e642b47f908459632d7c2e698b7ae4e3f18678fd SHA-256: 74fda840da119b7fefa511edc2d62cdc85422e2d78f5ae1006e7894873012a51
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is an Excel 4.0 macro-enabled spreadsheet that uses an Auto_Open macro to execute. The macro attempts to download a payload from one of two provided URLs. The document body contains text that appears to be part of the macro's logic, including reconstructed URLs and commands like 'run' and 'dll'. The presence of an Auto_Open macro and the lure to enable macros strongly indicate a malicious intent to download and execute further stages.

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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