Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · 78f9e1d6fa45f7af

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

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

MD5: eb94b14d6b5c5c55c7dabbc17b687ef0 SHA-1: ff437382af1a58835ffad066a41d90cfe43923bf SHA-256: 78f9e1d6fa45f7afc51598d07261312f8f6037fd3fe29d29387b5294aa134e1d

102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is an Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro-enabled spreadsheet. It contains an Auto_Open defined name, indicating that macros will execute automatically upon opening. The document also includes a lure to encourage users to enable macros or editing. The embedded URLs likely serve as download locations for a second-stage payload. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of XLM macros and the lure strongly suggest a macro-based malware delivery mechanism.

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://caiogabriel.com.br/tOKLlSLW/lena.html
- https://bwctradex.com/BcotoLXTr1y/lena.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `d46ad6b52df62d280ddc3eb28f4fdfc78bc84dc99077b9aa50809affc4be6057`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	8812 bytes

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