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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0f1624b43fab45b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 6f159b237952cb2bf316423440e5e23c SHA-1: da245ae4113076f54247f96ed8402affd42ae073 SHA-256: f0f1624b43fab45b24a9e65eb750afa7b31563e241c70328c90cec20740700da
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an Excel 4.0 macro-enabled spreadsheet. It contains an Auto_Open macro that is designed to execute automatically when the document is opened. The macro attempts to download a payload from one of two URLs: https://escolamundoazul.com.br/ntmQmwXnc6KC/ue.html or https://laresumeservice.com/wp7rTKrY/ue.html. The document body contains text that appears to be part of the macro code, including reconstructed URL fragments and commands like 'un', 'dll', 'R', 'LM', 'JJC', 'CBB', 'on', 'oadT', 'wnl', 'LDo', 'File', 'o', ',Dl', 'ht', 'tps://'. This indicates a downloader functionality.

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://escolamundoazul.com.br/ntmQmwXnc6KC/ue.html
    • https://laresumeservice.com/wp7rTKrY/ue.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
e0f9b32b2cf7d5bbad99732afb6eb8bf95619170305ebee6a87504bc690cca2a
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8209 bytes