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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca52a3f30a5ce0fb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

380.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 95695ce6c649dd0a2f3e0c33d5e4ea1e SHA-1: 593a2d98a514c92af173fc9c8ff1dfcb4d827d71 SHA-256: ca52a3f30a5ce0fbe75f9a2b13d2baefea170dbfc7c8ba68e5af9842e1a219a0
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains embedded Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros, indicated by the OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN and OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME heuristics. It also employs a macro-enable lure to bypass security settings. The embedded XLM macros likely download and execute a second-stage payload from one of the two provided URLs.

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://caiogabriel.com.br/tOKLlSLW/lena.html
    • https://bwctradex.com/BcotoLXTr1y/lena.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
d46ad6b52df62d280ddc3eb28f4fdfc78bc84dc99077b9aa50809affc4be6057
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8812 bytes