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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1441cea7f0bbb911…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ec30f8f3651b7a3cf61d54e107525e30 SHA-1: 230099302bb20fda098b6d017dc63a56d9f4df01 SHA-256: 1441cea7f0bbb911b29a2a03ae1a7c8d0ca213d28bd9867de412d375c21159dd
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros with an Auto_Open entry, indicating automatic execution upon opening. The macros utilize dangerous functions like RUN and CALL, and specifically construct strings like 'Ke' + 'l32' and 'Cr' + 'yA' which are then used in a CALL function. This suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from the embedded URL, likely related to the ClamAV detection 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0'.

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://ctxpress.com/ds/261120.gif
    • https://ctxpress.com/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
aa837a287543a9593dc9ad53c5a1043539349d9d7158b9d02f92e2bb7330dc0f		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6677 bytes

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