MALICIOUS
102
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic
T1204.002 Malicious File
The presence of an Excel 4.0 macro sheet with an Auto_Open entry, combined with a heuristic indicating a lure to enable macros, strongly suggests malicious intent. The embedded URLs are likely used to download and execute a secondary payload. The XLM macros themselves were too large to fully analyze, but the overall pattern points to a downloader.
Heuristics 4
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Excel 4.0 Auto_Open defined name critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAMEoletools 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.
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Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet present medium OLE_XLM_AUTOOPENWorkbook 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.
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Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LUREDocument instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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.txtd46ad6b52df62d280ddc3eb28f4fdfc78bc84dc99077b9aa50809affc4be6057 |
xlm-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) | 8812 bytes |
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