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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89b8e847ad031a4b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

104.1 KB First seen: 2026-05-16
MD5: 9cee967e96668b6732a029243e20eb2f SHA-1: 95952bb2d97dd2c132099d6b8ae423daff9b2722 SHA-256: 89b8e847ad031a4b390dd01cbcdef874baa85bae20b20d00c70a50062c9103c0
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The critical heuristic 'OOXML_XLM_MACROSHEET' indicates the presence of Excel 4.0 macros within the XLSX file. These macros are often used to download and execute malicious payloads. While the macro content is truncated, the presence of XLM macros strongly suggests an attack pattern involving malicious document execution, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Heuristics 2

  • Excel 4.0 macro sheet (1 sheet(s)) critical OOXML_XLM_MACROSHEET
    Malformed OOXML local headers contain an Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet. XLM was a major Office malware vector during 2020-2022 and is rarely used in modern legitimate workbooks. The macro sheet is stored as XLSB/BIFF12 binary content, which many XML-only OOXML scanners miss.
  • Malformed OOXML package with recoverable local headers low OOXML_MALFORMED_ZIP_LOCAL_HEADERS
    The OOXML ZIP central directory is invalid or missing, but local file headers expose a recoverable Office package. This can create parser divergence between tolerant Office/ZIP readers and scanners that rely only on the central directory.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_sheet_04.bin xlm-macrosheet Malformed OOXML XLM macro sheet: xl/macrosheets/sheet1.bin 22875 bytes
SHA-256: c2bd7aee509cbbe4a117754448290f7bcc02b11a7c4fd1f5e11a3b34d91d1345
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