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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c852b0a9df9a72a9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 4c2b72b841fc2dcd483ceefc6f39a3eb SHA-1: 1f9551e6cf98c081a5b0ad6715d674e8d834b397 SHA-256: c852b0a9df9a72a9fc034843e3dd02c9698144cc5e0e0213285f37645c983a96
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Service Execution: Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

The sample is an Excel 4.0 spreadsheet containing an Auto_Open macro, indicated by the OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN heuristic. The document body and SE_ENABLE_LURE heuristic suggest a lure to enable macros. The extracted URLs are likely used to download a second-stage payload. The XLM macros themselves are truncated, but the presence of Auto_Open and the embedded URLs strongly suggest a downloader pattern.

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://escolamundoazul.com.br/ntmQmwXnc6KC/ue.html
    • https://laresumeservice.com/wp7rTKrY/ue.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
e0f9b32b2cf7d5bbad99732afb6eb8bf95619170305ebee6a87504bc690cca2a		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8209 bytes

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