Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · 8c1cd1a4ac053297

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

62.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: 9023c4f0f58c32db9952397a28d8c7ec SHA-1: 92d86406a9065b672220b8470f92848a4f154c72 SHA-256: 8c1cd1a4ac0532976d14c1d3d36d73472e038f6c5f9dd982a6722f6a15638c7e

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.004 Unix Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The presence of both XLM and VBA macros, along with heuristics indicating the use of ShellExecute and URLDownloadToFile APIs, strongly suggests malicious intent. The document body contains a URL, which is likely used to download a secondary payload. The 'SE_ENABLE_LURE' heuristic confirms the document attempts to trick the user into enabling macros, a common delivery mechanism for malware.

Heuristics 8

Reference to URLDownloadToFile API critical SC_STR_URLDOWNLOAD

Reference to URLDownloadToFile API
Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXEC

Reference to ShellExecute API
XLM Auto_Open with dangerous formula APIs high OLE_XLM_DANGEROUS_FN

Excel 4.0 macro sheet contains an Auto_Open / Auto_Close entry and dangerous XLM formula APIs that can invoke programs, write files, or transfer control without VBA.
Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN

Workbook_Open macro
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.
VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS

Document contains VBA macro code
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 http://blog.vokasidev.com/crun20.gif�
- http://blog.vokasidev.com/crun20.gif

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `d4222e1ad83b892546402a65bce1342319760d5f0e17d0c73ae5f07e792beb86`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	9447 bytes
`macros.bas` `c29faf2da8b6b84c63880f8f3ff09f138acdaa94ad9406cab75b546ae0e54428`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	979 bytes

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