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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bd1c457e0ba1b92…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 919d597bf799a2ac2adb1ec0dc81db83 SHA-1: 632c062d512b553770f32c642c834db8bfd1c907 SHA-256: 9bd1c457e0ba1b92c2ae564aab83ac0fa4e6ef7f827114b0807a342e91f4f90a
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros, including an Auto_Open entry, which are designed to execute automatically when the workbook is opened. The presence of a 'Macro/content-enable lure' heuristic indicates that the document likely prompts the user to enable macros. The embedded URLs suggest a download mechanism for a secondary payload. The confidence is slightly reduced due to the lack of direct script content analysis.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
740337535414e50f998f7a71055f9de0e2208abc42faca490883ba1d9c48deb1		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8349 bytes

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