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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2e70ce92b9edae3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

525.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: a53e4074ef9c0b4d747ca16e1634fcdc SHA-1: 5e7fbc36ae11e41294a31812408a066bf7ac2248 SHA-256: c2e70ce92b9edae33331ad84481a42803a1db88bcbd5ba73995e53f414d414fb
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The sample is an Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet, indicated by the OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN heuristic. It contains a lure to enable macros, a common social engineering tactic. The embedded URLs are likely used to download a secondary payload, although no scripts were extracted to confirm this directly.

Heuristics 5

  • XLM Auto_Open workbook with payload URL or enable-content lure critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_PAYLOAD_LURE
    Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet with Auto_Open / Auto_Close and also exposes a payload URL or enable-content lure in the OLE bytes. This combination is a high-confidence XLM downloader/social-engineering pattern even when formula recovery cannot decode the full macro chain.
  • Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet uses dangerous capability functions high OLE_XLM_DANGEROUS_FN_STATIC
    Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet whose formulas reference two or more dangerous capability functions (e.g. CALL into a Win32 API such as URLDownloadToFile, EXEC to launch a process, REGISTER an external DLL procedure, or FWRITE/FOPEN to drop a file) with an Auto_Open / Auto_Close auto-execution name. This is the canonical XLM downloader/dropper shape and is recovered directly from the BIFF records, so it fires even when the full macro chain cannot be deobfuscated.
  • 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 — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://rathnakumar.com/BuTxTGO63eD/solo.html In document text (OLE body)
    • https://maidzonemobile.com/Voy4zCN8y1/solo.htmlIn document text (OLE body)

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