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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e97bd346da37773b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

63.0 KB Created: 2021-12-16 23:53:43 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: e9aac543d4dab3018167c0560c292ab7 SHA-1: 4482b4068594a2e216db20300046d3a9717cac18 SHA-256: e97bd346da37773bc470f47a2d5e125bc1fe5ffd593628c33829d1068d275c0d
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample contains Excel 4.0 macros, including an Auto_Open defined name, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The macro reconstructs a command to download a payload from 'http://87.251.85.100/oo/oo.html' or 'http://87.251.86.178/pp/bb.html'. The document body explicitly instructs the user to 'Enable Editing' and 'Enable Content', a common lure to bypass security measures and execute the embedded macros. The VBA project contains no executable statements, indicating the primary malicious logic resides within the XLM macros.

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
  • VBA project contains no executable statements low OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains a VBA project, but extracted modules only contain attributes/options/comments and no executable statements.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
de81f8962b42018d50fc3f858c62f78dac7c27a8d9c6bc0ba2b69c5b8c8e6d84		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 1240 bytes
macros.bas
faef16cfc3b69e6dacc60198a7ccc61c4bb61c8632529929cd74db2189ccdc82		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 906 bytes

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