Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · bdb54ecf2eeb26fe

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

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

MD5: a2591533dab6caa5c62c0dda854d0960 SHA-1: bed44cc0404385d36eda8bc7fd50eebf64f967a5 SHA-256: bdb54ecf2eeb26fe2d1e89bd6d691393cdd267ffff7b5da8b702f2ad0b20b490

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. It contains an Auto_Open macro that will execute upon opening. The document also employs a lure to trick the user into enabling macros. The embedded URLs likely point to a second-stage payload. The XLM macros are too complex to fully analyze statically, but the presence of Auto_Open and the lure strongly suggest a downloader or droppper functionality.

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://silvertoncc.com/ys1Btp80hx/th.html
- https://christleadersworld.com/1TaIPHnbwbNV/th.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `740337535414e50f998f7a71055f9de0e2208abc42faca490883ba1d9c48deb1`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	8349 bytes

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