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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 115925ea556925d6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 546237bf425dd7cca335ca205093df22 SHA-1: 889d153ce03e3fd3389e400eabbfee8639547ba1 SHA-256: 115925ea556925d60cb9d07f0db9e0bff2498033dbe92d71d266c6882609d868
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros with an Auto_Open entry, which is a critical finding. These macros utilize dangerous functions like RUN and CALL to execute code and attempt to download a payload from the URL https://boatssa.com/ds/231120.gif. The CALL function appears to be constructing a dynamic API call, likely to execute the downloaded content.

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://boatssa.com/ds/231120.gif
    • https://boatssa.com/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
96eae7b570d4a9d4f225045676982008ec43ffa50f8643e2397db329f3c9bb6b		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6059 bytes

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