Malicious Office (OOXML) / .XLSM — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2189be5a4f816bf2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSM

102.8 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300
MD5: c5c6558cb191bdbbca27d8df9217c0fd SHA-1: aec35a61b0fbd1ffaa52565b2e80e0f200a330a7 SHA-256: 2189be5a4f816bf225d58d58e2c63ce342e7aff13242b3564b0b59eac6798dce
270 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is an XLSM file containing VBA macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro that utilizes URLDownloadToFileA. This indicates the primary function is to download a second-stage payload from a remote URL. The XLM macro sheet further confirms the presence of macro code. The embedded URLs are the most critical IOCs for this downloader.

Heuristics 8

  • URLDownloadToFile in VBA critical OLE_VBA_DOWNLOAD
    URLDownloadToFile in VBA
  • Excel 4.0 macro sheet (1 sheet(s)) critical OOXML_XLM_MACROSHEET
    Spreadsheet contains an Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet — XLM was a major Office malware vector during 2020-2022 and evaded many VBA-focused controls before Microsoft tightened XLM defaults. Even legitimate XLM use is rare in modern workbooks.
  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.Docusign112101-9908076-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.Docusign112101-9908076-0
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • Hidden worksheet (hidden) low OOXML_HIDDEN_SHEET
    Excel workbook contains 1 hidden sheet(s) — hidden sheets are commonly used to conceal macro code, staging data, or intermediate payload construction
  • 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://190.14.37.28/
    • http://45.138.172.96/
    • http://185.82.200.35/
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/spreadsheetml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2006/main
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2009/9/ac
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2014/revision
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2015/revision2
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2016/revision3
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2016/revision6

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7916640770de72821f454a596bb6b8124e7c3ec3c1eb08d6506bb51462c9d332		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 2436 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
770625581fa76c01d01bbae593aa982554988ea220ea2f0b4426277839bdf9e8		 vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 18944 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
xlm_sheet_00.xml
e014b7d83fce87cd73993a00c9f70dd0fd5770c4aa411e5d991b67bb43eaeb32		 xlm-macrosheet OOXML XLM macro sheet: xl/macrosheets/intlsheet1.xml 2247 bytes

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