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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd7fdbd646c92b4d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: bc6f8b69b2659c65107cd2d413f2d7ba SHA-1: 32df510db3042b3a56a33fb138a4f0e7cb8b9372 SHA-256: cd7fdbd646c92b4d0c6d1315eedda56b1fec1b48fe2e9228e51c0ca8611fe271
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 macro-enabled spreadsheet that contains an Auto_Open defined name, indicating automatic execution upon opening. It also contains heuristics for an enable-lure, suggesting the user is prompted to enable macros. The embedded URLs likely host the next stage of the attack, such as a downloader or payload. No scripts were extracted, but the XLM macro sheet itself is the primary execution mechanism.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
e61304013e31eadd8bf35fc5d3e6cbadd61463966f2a2d09ae24f65eb0ee3106		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8349 bytes

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