Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · 8e4467dd9f9556bd

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

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

MD5: a40da5b8bee9d48776a37da869f486aa SHA-1: acc399ca03e3281314e4f6b0b658d43cd79a1210 SHA-256: 8e4467dd9f9556bdc6b42df76ac7b2599b59b576fcea0758a44b3c8c3368765a

102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The presence of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros, specifically an Auto_Open defined name, indicates an attempt to automatically execute code upon opening the document. The heuristic 'SE_ENABLE_LURE' suggests the document prompts the user to enable macros, a common social engineering tactic. The embedded URLs are likely used to download and execute a secondary payload. The XLM macros are too complex to fully analyze statically, but their presence and the lure strongly suggest a downloader or droppper functionality.

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://silvertoncc.com/ys1Btp80hx/th.html
- https://christleadersworld.com/1TaIPHnbwbNV/th.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `740337535414e50f998f7a71055f9de0e2208abc42faca490883ba1d9c48deb1`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	8349 bytes

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