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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18e9ba2795e067e5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

133.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 0d603d6eea773285f63c9e02a7537ec0 SHA-1: 65a9b84f8bda7d964d726905b67fb3c376859ab6 SHA-256: 18e9ba2795e067e5a9e30076502c3ee9273a8383fec636844db992a857a201ea
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet containing VBA macros, including Auto_Open and Auto_Close functions. Critical heuristics indicate the use of obfuscated API names, specifically 'URLDownloadToFile', which is commonly used by malware to download and execute additional payloads. The presence of multiple embedded URLs further supports this finding, suggesting the macro attempts to fetch a second-stage payload from one of these locations.

Heuristics 6

  • Dangerous API name reassembled from split string literals critical OLE_VBA_SPLIT_KEYWORD_OBFUSCATION
    VBA concatenates short string literals that reassemble a dangerous API/ProgID/LOLBin name (e.g. Scripting.FileSystemObject, WScript.Shell, powershell, URLDownloadToFile) which appears in no single literal. Splitting an API name across string concatenation is done only to evade keyword scanning.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Docusign112100-9908075-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Docusign112100-9908075-0
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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 http://5.196.247.6/�
    • http://94.140.112.149/
    • http://84.246.85.196//

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
57dbf314ba8d8e0cd5ae01430a1b3452bf5356fd0c3f739414504ecdf5e48acc
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 3568 bytes