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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbf6814f8041e0c3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

367.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 967b570df1358e0cf1abd93071aa011d SHA-1: 12ffdf98f953d5031bbcd90b02e55b9a1b950560 SHA-256: fbf6814f8041e0c3941190b1276e2599cb3ad25fbdfdcfdf1de7162abfb82a68
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN heuristic indicates the presence of an Excel 4.0 macro sheet with an Auto_Open function, which is designed to execute automatically when the workbook is opened. The SE_ENABLE_LURE heuristic suggests the document prompts the user to enable macros, a common social engineering tactic. The embedded URLs are likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The macro sheet itself is too large to analyze for specific actions, but the combination of Auto_Open and embedded URLs strongly suggests a downloader or initial access mechanism.

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 — context-specific rules above attribute URLs they actually evaluated; this rule lists URLs that were present in the bytes but were not otherwise tied to a specific finding.
    URL https://smartpalakatva.com/edQsUZOLlE/th.html
    • https://pilstlcommodities.com/Ov4FlB3lpy/th.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
e61304013e31eadd8bf35fc5d3e6cbadd61463966f2a2d09ae24f65eb0ee3106		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8349 bytes

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