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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14400a65d8cc6619…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: b06c7c8188b57f2bba47b60f44c1b8db SHA-1: d003b4919c63cf8c81b7d4e5871ef67b45bad03e SHA-256: 14400a65d8cc66198400d99f57e6e854389bc6a48f7e57dd2e26083ea2093ac3
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, including an Auto_Open macro that utilizes dangerous functions like RUN and CALL. The macros appear to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from the URL https://tured.net/ds/261120.gif. This behavior is consistent with 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://tured.net/ds/261120.gif
    • https://tured.net/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
4805caad40efa88359221773489543a181039fb59e7111454d99230bce3bd306
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6674 bytes