MALICIOUS
182
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic
T1204.002 Malicious File
T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, which are known to be used for malicious purposes. The macros contain strings like 'URLDownloadToFileA', 'DownloadToFileA', and 'ShellExecuteA', indicating an intent to download and execute a payload. The reconstructed URL 'https://mmsu.com.ua/ds/4.gif' is likely the source of this payload. The use of these WinAPI functions and the embedded URL strongly suggests a downloader attack pattern.
Heuristics 4
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Excel 4.0 macro sheet (1 sheet(s)) critical 2 related findings OOXML_XLM_MACROSHEETSpreadsheet contains an Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet — XLM was a major Office malware vector during 2020-2022 and evaded many VBA-focused controls before Microsoft tightened XLM defaults. Even legitimate XLM use is rare in modern workbooks. The macro sheet is stored as XLSB/BIFF12 binary content, which many XML-only OOXML scanners miss.
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Binary XLM macro sheet with WinAPI/download strings critical OOXML_XLM_BINARY_WINAPI_STRINGSExcel 4.0 macro sheet is stored as BIFF12/XLSB binary data and contains Win32 download or process-execution API strings such as URLDownloadToFileA, ShellExecuteA, or CreateDirectoryA. These strings are high-signal in XLM macro sheets and catch payload-download macros that XML-formula scanners cannot parse.
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URL reconstructed from XLM cell array (1 URL) critical OOXML_XLM_CELL_ARRAY_URLExcel 4.0 macro sheet stages its payload URL across individual numeric cells (one ASCII charcode per cell) or inside an embedded HTA that uses VBScript Chr()/&-concat obfuscation. The reconstructed URL is invisible to literal-bytes URL extraction because it is never contiguous in the workbook stream. URLs were recovered by walking the BIFF12 record stream of every worksheet and macrosheet part and decoding RK/inline-string cells in both row-major and column-major order.
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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://mmsu.com.ua/ds/4.gif Referenced by macro
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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xlm_sheet_00.binf3468520ab7f9a1917dad4e3092f53f9cc8f20ff090c54c05de4742347202530 |
xlm-macrosheet | OOXML XLM macro sheet: xl/macrosheets/sheet1.bin | 197532 bytes |
Preview scriptFirst 1,000 lines of the extracted script
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