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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8cac81baff918fe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

222.0 KB Created: 2020-09-16 03:49:16 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 7ff991fdfd6dbbceace1331e9f52bb2d SHA-1: 34e1c42a0c0e53f07cffc3e45be04f3357874e03 SHA-256: f8cac81baff918fed1d62bfc5ca8d21d15f153b21d818be9410259b4096e6e3e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is an encrypted Excel 4.0 macro sheet, indicated by the OLE_XLM_ENCRYPTED_MACROSHEET heuristic. The presence of an AUTOOPEN macro (OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN) suggests that malicious code is intended to execute automatically when the workbook is opened. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing further analysis of its specific intent. No URLs or other IOCs were extracted.

Heuristics 2

  • Encrypted Excel 4.0 macro sheet high OLE_XLM_ENCRYPTED_MACROSHEET
    Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet and BIFF FILEPASS encryption. Password-protected XLM macro sheets, especially the default Excel password path, are a common malware evasion pattern because static formula extraction may fail until the workbook is decrypted.
  • 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.