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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6a88e798654a03e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

380.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 8a9bc32b396b9c2820c27424fb555bd3 SHA-1: 617c74667d6d824600a30ae53af0c1e7b79739f3 SHA-256: a6a88e798654a03ee553d25ca61c086e3cbc8f8a926563e97553c87c38e75a00
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open entry, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The presence of an 'enable lure' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick the user into enabling macros. The embedded URLs are likely used to download and execute a secondary payload, a common technique for initial access.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
d46ad6b52df62d280ddc3eb28f4fdfc78bc84dc99077b9aa50809affc4be6057
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8812 bytes