Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · d4db733813692e0d

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

380.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: ef4f5dc0b50ff1ff3cfd2a6d42c98452 SHA-1: eb5103ebaf4edca98a430738964c96caf724aeb6 SHA-256: d4db733813692e0d2cc8a5950a630322649975c5a6e1d53a73b793b00913d78b

102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The sample is an Excel file containing Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros, indicated by the OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN and OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME heuristics. The SE_ENABLE_LURE heuristic suggests the document prompts the user to enable macros. The embedded XLM macros likely execute upon opening, potentially downloading further payloads from the provided URLs. The exact behavior of the XLM macros is not fully detailed, but the presence of an Auto_Open entry and the lure strongly indicate malicious intent.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `d46ad6b52df62d280ddc3eb28f4fdfc78bc84dc99077b9aa50809affc4be6057`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	8812 bytes

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