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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c85122d32bc6111d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ef80061f0e08b1d1e68ecc985d45e9ff SHA-1: 3df21083784e12abdcb20a41921a067f8877ef5f SHA-256: c85122d32bc6111da073c7d8f9967bcde810f21d74151a23c37d3a8b4a060822
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 sheet that contains an Auto_Open macro, indicating it will execute automatically when the workbook is opened. It also contains heuristics for an 'enable lure', suggesting it prompts the user to enable macros. The extracted URLs are likely used to download a second-stage payload. The XLM macro itself is truncated, but the presence of Auto_Open and the embedded URLs strongly suggest a downloader 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 — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://signifysystem.com/ceg7AX7oN0o/ue.html
    • https://fcventasyservicios.cl/k60jvjcT/ue.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
c7d4d2bead8580d5104e88300cefa6eb3ebffd421d1191db8449676bfb792ff2
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8209 bytes