Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · a2fe6c5bdab47647

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

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

MD5: 3d0a7263ea3965fe08beb68ebb724d4a SHA-1: d519b11186207e51d8ba236a5a5e63c09ab81599 SHA-256: a2fe6c5bdab476474a96d9cdce202ddf1920b48cd346cf10986ad836de7f97d8

102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The sample is an Excel 4.0 (XLM) spreadsheet containing an Auto_Open macro, a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening. The document body contains instructions to enable macros, acting as a lure. The embedded XLM macros likely download and execute a second-stage payload from one of the provided URLs, as indicated by the presence of 'downloadFile' and 'runDll32' calls within the macro listing.

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://hermescomm.net/x9NvrhL0/lena.html
- https://asistenciajuridicaintegral.com/6YiCkNix5/lena.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `be629cb484f8d82e38c4234ddbad4f1755e762b9c1c8359642d99f8c77e6e858`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	8812 bytes

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