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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 024f9c2bb1a7bb9a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

332.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: f024042c88ba85a0d46908c68361b353 SHA-1: 99b46c06d428036ad81074e003e1fc4e7c37ec81 SHA-256: 024f9c2bb1a7bb9a346a87d88cab35d448a7c22d7c906f10ebad477ba9a8b253
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This Excel 4.0 macro-enabled workbook contains an Auto_Open macro that utilizes the RUN function and CALL to execute a command. The macro explicitly constructs a CALL to "Ke32" and "CryA" with arguments derived from concatenated strings and a remote URL, https://dtmh.gr/ds/231120.gif. This indicates the macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, aligning with the behavior of a downloader malware.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • XLM Auto_Open with dangerous formula APIs critical OLE_XLM_DANGEROUS_FN
    Excel 4.0 macro sheet contains an Auto_Open / Auto_Close entry and dangerous XLM formula APIs that can invoke programs, write files, or transfer control without VBA.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0
  • Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXEC
    Reference to ShellExecute API
  • 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.
  • 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://dtmh.gr/ds/231120.gif

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
c8d4504c98e732b3946f99214663fda76453297a5fc2e4e085c3ff1af974258c		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6293 bytes

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