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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8ab97ca075cb8a5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

243.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-02-23
MD5: 223d7d3678094abd2983bb137b12d0c0 SHA-1: 3519005267a2dfe11064edcbfc2bb6c48e0216b0 SHA-256: d8ab97ca075cb8a5345ec92ad43686a8d80be43da7ea1936c8e512e86be48214
302 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Service Execution: Visual Basic T1218.010 System Binary Proxy Execution: Regsvr32 T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros with an Auto_Open entry, which is a critical indicator of malicious intent. The macros leverage dangerous functions like RUN to execute the command 'regsvr32.exe' with a URL. This command is used to download and execute a second-stage payload from the reconstructed URL http://servidorcarlosydavid.es/wp-admin/jkNPgHxNjF/. The ClamAV detection further supports the malicious classification.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • XLM Auto_Open with dangerous formula APIs critical OLE_XLM_DANGEROUS_FN
    Excel 4.0 macro sheet contains an Auto_Open / Auto_Close entry and dangerous XLM formula APIs that can invoke programs, write files, or transfer control without VBA.
  • URL reconstructed from XLM cell array (5 URLs) critical OLE_XLM_CELL_ARRAY_URL
    Excel 4.0 macro sheet stages its payload URL across the BIFF8 Shared String Table (one quoted-char SST entry concatenated with & at runtime) or across individual numeric cells (one ASCII charcode per cell). The reconstructed URL is invisible to literal-bytes URL extraction because it is never contiguous in the workbook stream. URLs were recovered by walking the BIFF8 record stream and decoding SST entries plus LABELSST/RK/NUMBER cells.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9940038-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9940038-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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.
  • 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 http://servidorcarlosydavid.es/wp-admin/jkNPgHxNjF/
    • https://iashanghai.cn/z/Z1PG6ulBh20plss/
    • https://www.pasionportufuturo.pe/wp-content/HkUfvw0xuCy5/
    • http://dmdagents.com.au/vqwbgz/CL4Bo4C4VS0deg/
    • http://servidorcarlosydavid.es/wp-admin/jkNPg
    • https://gmo-sol-p10.heteml.jp/includes/UoJMgYAc1EES/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
0a554b35c45f3081eb2bd3af49bd7cee66f4b8ea0f2a41390fdd5477ea042fb4		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6618 bytes

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