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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa56ee31ed1da010…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: f906a39619de6bcf744f0bb9e726296a SHA-1: fb814732f09d1e7e343a9d2d5f766314b64b8ba4 SHA-256: fa56ee31ed1da010e3fb34b34ffc08ef0c76d222ee63e1733f0365b599842e7d
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an Excel 4.0 macro sheet (XLM) that contains an Auto_Open macro, indicating it will execute automatically when the workbook is opened. The document body and extracted macro content reveal embedded URLs that are likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of an 'enable lure' heuristic further supports the malicious intent of tricking the user into enabling 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
  • 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://stateoftheartacademy.com.br/E4V8njAb2/ue.html
    • https://dsafarm.com/h03itpGP/ue.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
e808156aa76369abc653ef5da0e4637a11444d74c8ce4e627b8f3942d60b3178		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8209 bytes

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