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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8757223283d55224…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 3957a726781c9249cdf3a5df12ad7c86 SHA-1: f172341ab5a61babe51f1d64841555fc51ec3618 SHA-256: 8757223283d55224f916c022b8d9bbdf98acac6279ccb0129450f9ccf3c0f3f0
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The Excel 4.0 macro sheet contains an Auto_Open entry, indicating it will execute automatically when the workbook is opened. The document body and heuristics suggest a lure to enable content, which is a common tactic for macro-based malware. The embedded URLs are likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • XLM Auto_Open workbook with payload URL or enable-content lure critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_PAYLOAD_LURE
    Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet with Auto_Open / Auto_Close and also exposes a payload URL or enable-content lure in the OLE bytes. This combination is a high-confidence XLM downloader/social-engineering pattern even when formula recovery cannot decode the full macro chain.
  • 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://escolamundoazul.com.br/ntmQmwXnc6KC/ue.html
    • https://laresumeservice.com/wp7rTKrY/ue.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
e0f9b32b2cf7d5bbad99732afb6eb8bf95619170305ebee6a87504bc690cca2a		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8209 bytes

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