Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · 7543b0d91f8997d7

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

380.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: e3c4ade3b7404ddf5b9df79e1365807c SHA-1: 48ea3452ca27614fa9e5b9c131758f789c5f9e19 SHA-256: 7543b0d91f8997d7369ff58c0414d093444dccd64bbb5d47c09737ecd0249fc3

102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical heuristic OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME indicates the presence of Excel 4.0 macros with an Auto_Open entry, which are designed to execute automatically upon opening the workbook. The SE_ENABLE_LURE heuristic confirms that the document attempts to trick the user into enabling macros. The extracted URLs are likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload, as suggested by the embedded macro content which includes calls to 'File.DownloadFile' and 'runDLL'.

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 — context-specific rules above attribute URLs they actually evaluated; this rule lists URLs that were present in the bytes but were not otherwise tied to a specific finding.
URL https://thedeformo.com/zrbLAqMKy21Y/lena.html
- https://faithfulroofingco.com/nmsY1dCNaBRO/lena.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `13ea4a1fd330f9266fa91027043baa61f334e3ac691e10ce14b7c7fee97c551c`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	8812 bytes

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