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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a32e964edb60ff79…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 45a07496c39045320b3b0b6a747e084b SHA-1: 979f9534c18d3d1c86de0e514dc7fb42f5d2fa09 SHA-256: a32e964edb60ff799bdfa983c224774413f4b8488ca460d89e607a8f2ad3e351
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) macro-enabled spreadsheet that contains an Auto_Open macro. It also includes a lure to trick the user into enabling macros. The extracted URLs suggest the document is a downloader for a second-stage payload. The XLM macros are likely responsible for fetching and executing content from these URLs.

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 — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://signifysystem.com/ceg7AX7oN0o/ue.html
    • https://fcventasyservicios.cl/k60jvjcT/ue.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
c7d4d2bead8580d5104e88300cefa6eb3ebffd421d1191db8449676bfb792ff2
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8209 bytes