Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · ab9e7422e720f35e

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: 8debbab46e6721c8fe96f8f83ffca399 SHA-1: 5c6b9cbeef31f1bfdf3f4d973eba969a37017e06 SHA-256: ab9e7422e720f35eabcf8172a0c89bb10e8cabf82dba383e9dda23f9f61300da

102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications 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 are likely used to download and execute further stages of the attack. The confidence is reduced due to the lack of script content for direct analysis of the macro's actions.

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://mayread.com/aXfFF8qdsV/th.html
- https://tpcsv.neosj.why3s.tw/XjHoDakG/th.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `7758cbebef832a37ce0a327fd7d893202195f03ba9b854edef74b19dbb11678f`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	8349 bytes

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