Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · c8af2ff1a070715d

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: a67ef3eb41d7e82f2329bd288d0281b0 SHA-1: 1b221c7343e2d1407d2e8d8ca723e47614d8055d SHA-256: c8af2ff1a070715d15cbccc5419f782e0dba914a0b4ec23464885e82a0f71461

102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an Excel 4.0 spreadsheet containing an Auto_Open macro, indicating it's designed to execute code upon opening. It also contains a lure to enable macros, a common technique for malware delivery. The embedded URLs likely serve as download locations for further stages of the attack. The XLM macros are too complex to fully analyze statically, but their presence and the Auto_Open entry strongly suggest a malicious downloader.

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://smartpalakatva.com/edQsUZOLlE/th.html
- https://pilstlcommodities.com/Ov4FlB3lpy/th.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `e61304013e31eadd8bf35fc5d3e6cbadd61463966f2a2d09ae24f65eb0ee3106`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	8349 bytes

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