Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · da71dd5721d99935

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

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

MD5: 4d535c10e7674d09625f939477149fc4 SHA-1: 97df2ff69a6849a60fc018d3c4590587b7b0eb6c SHA-256: da71dd5721d99935d52c8c02f212c0dfe421e14a30550bad91be4f3dd83f63b9

102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The critical heuristic OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME indicates the presence of Excel 4.0 macros designed to auto-execute. The SE_ENABLE_LURE heuristic confirms a common social engineering tactic to bypass security. The embedded URLs are likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The extracted DOC BODY content, while fragmented, contains references to `CALL`, `RUN`, and `DOWNLOADFILE`, further supporting the macro execution and payload delivery.

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://thedeformo.com/zrbLAqMKy21Y/lena.html
- https://faithfulroofingco.com/nmsY1dCNaBRO/lena.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `13ea4a1fd330f9266fa91027043baa61f334e3ac691e10ce14b7c7fee97c551c`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	8812 bytes

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