Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · a2ef3bd43932a052

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

380.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: 1bd1420189ca2b770806b502bb3ec7cd SHA-1: 6b42822ef7f308ebbb461f1e71cdeb3f155a9644 SHA-256: a2ef3bd43932a052ee7d782f477ab33e580237ccb92f41e5b8a762dbf186ba82

102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical heuristic OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME indicates the presence of an Excel 4.0 Auto_Open macro, which is designed to execute automatically upon opening the workbook. The SE_ENABLE_LURE heuristic suggests the document prompts the user to enable macros, a common social engineering tactic. The embedded URLs likely serve as download locations for secondary payloads. The XLM macros are too large to fully analyze statically, but their presence and the Auto_Open entry strongly suggest a downloader or initial access mechanism.

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://caiogabriel.com.br/tOKLlSLW/lena.html
- https://bwctradex.com/BcotoLXTr1y/lena.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `d46ad6b52df62d280ddc3eb28f4fdfc78bc84dc99077b9aa50809affc4be6057`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	8812 bytes

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