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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bcae44af9d50e7f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: af69150079da8c89043af27780798ae9 SHA-1: 9868bb56538124cefb6fa98f4e59b3714a21e218 SHA-256: 1bcae44af9d50e7ff417f76c8a6c55f3d13924d98e088b0da6a2cf0388904233
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The presence of Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro utilizing dangerous functions like RUN, strongly indicates malicious intent. The heuristic for ShellExecute further suggests the execution of external code. The embedded URL is likely used to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with a downloader malware.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • XLM Auto_Open with dangerous formula APIs high 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.
  • 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://binbios.com/ds/261120.gif
    • https://binbios.com/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
db00faaaa5dfbd9a76904fe95aa20bad9a05f6214a6081cc43218c3c9509e31c
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6676 bytes