Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d922d96c7681d4cb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

132.5 KB Created: 2010-03-03 04:22:31 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: d5148fe63bc654cd688d8d1dbfc9da98 SHA-1: 6bdac5184d2da927922118260602b70b329b6c42 SHA-256: d922d96c7681d4cb393893289996ad3571962f11d1d8cd14d8e83b253b0c04da
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is an Excel 4.0 macro-enabled document. Heuristics indicate the presence of an Auto_Open macro and the use of dangerous functions like RUN, suggesting it's designed to execute arbitrary code. The macro sheet contains markers associated with legacy macro-viruses, specifically 'XL4Poppy' and 'Normal_MacroVirus'. The document body contains Vietnamese text related to financial statements, which may serve as a lure.

Heuristics 4

  • Excel 4.0 (XLM) Auto_Open + macro sheet critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN
    Workbook contains an Auto_Open / Auto_Close defined name together with an Excel 4.0 macro sheet — the canonical XLM auto-execution shape used by malware families such as Emotet and QakBot.
  • 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.
  • Legacy XLM macro-virus family marker critical OLE_XLM_LEGACY_MACRO_VIRUS
    Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro Auto_Open chain and legacy macro-virus family strings. This is a narrow indicator for infected XLM workbooks rather than ordinary formula use.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
6f8afb4ae9c06885bd2cab9c05fc3e61f12dd20faae1eea6a3208c62db30aaec
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 24398 bytes