MALICIOUS
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) spreadsheet containing an Auto_Open macro, indicating automatic execution upon opening. It also contains heuristics for a macro-enable lure, suggesting it prompts the user to enable content. The embedded URLs are likely used to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of XLM macros and the lure technique strongly suggest a malicious downloader.
Heuristics 4
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Excel 4.0 Auto_Open defined name critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAMEoletools 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.
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Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet present medium OLE_XLM_AUTOOPENWorkbook 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.
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Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LUREDocument instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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.txt740337535414e50f998f7a71055f9de0e2208abc42faca490883ba1d9c48deb1 |
xlm-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) | 8349 bytes |
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