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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2392bab41b1bd16e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

144.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: bf0b71cf808586bee3af59a0d77a9462 SHA-1: 68f96881b43a561fe883add155ed66bfc62cff5e SHA-256: 2392bab41b1bd16e682b954f11928c53ba1d45c346ad0c095433214dd0390507
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The sample is an Excel 4.0 macro-enabled spreadsheet that impersonates DocuSign to lure the user into enabling macros. Upon enabling, it executes an Auto_Open macro that attempts to download a payload from several embedded URLs. The macro sheet contains multiple references to these URLs, suggesting a downloader functionality.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • Document signing service impersonation lure medium SE_DOCUSIGN_LURE
    Document impersonates DocuSign, Adobe Sign, or a similar signing service in a signing-request context

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
5e5feba7ac6ef308fa74ad2052e0f89da4ae87559a31b5790ed416ca644d13a8
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 4794 bytes