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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec98ea5504665bc7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: c3fbfb7a0e25579f95d7458d9f348da7 SHA-1: b5c04dca4bfe3a3a47ea467218077f266d9976d5 SHA-256: ec98ea5504665bc7117cf33bacf1bf163354f4007df2addf4f10d7f7e5df051f
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File

The presence of Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open entry, indicates an attempt to automatically execute code upon opening the document. The document body and extracted URLs point to a lure designed to trick the user into enabling macros, which would then likely download and execute a second-stage payload from one of the provided URLs. The macro sheet itself is truncated, preventing a full analysis of its specific actions, but the overall pattern is consistent with a downloader.

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 — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://signifysystem.com/ceg7AX7oN0o/ue.html
    • https://fcventasyservicios.cl/k60jvjcT/ue.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
c7d4d2bead8580d5104e88300cefa6eb3ebffd421d1191db8449676bfb792ff2		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8209 bytes

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