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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bebe1f99c6632e36…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

380.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 458595f518795f0d89312e3ef392843f SHA-1: 1dc11a32020f7d7c406eeeb69d2fc874450c9a9b SHA-256: bebe1f99c6632e365cdfc54cd3de495928222e6122dd04faaecc7f6a975a4e25
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The presence of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros, specifically an Auto_Open defined name, indicates an attempt to automatically execute code upon opening the workbook. The document body contains obfuscated URLs and what appear to be macro commands for downloading and executing a file, likely from one of the provided URLs. The 'SE_ENABLE_LURE' heuristic further suggests the document is designed to trick the user into enabling these macros.

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://hermescomm.net/x9NvrhL0/lena.html
    • https://asistenciajuridicaintegral.com/6YiCkNix5/lena.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
be629cb484f8d82e38c4234ddbad4f1755e762b9c1c8359642d99f8c77e6e858		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8812 bytes

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