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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27c49c6f7c48dc49…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 0db3f243077d5412d4333bf78b9e0089 SHA-1: 4d04429db5c193428bf2043f12dc2284223b2a12 SHA-256: 27c49c6f7c48dc49984bd4ca055bd518ea577fb541649f698652573e72114988
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro that utilizes dangerous functions like RUN. This indicates the macro is designed to execute arbitrary commands. The presence of an embedded URL suggests the macro's primary purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0' further supports this downloader functionality.

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://jpsteel.in/ds/261120.gif
    • https://jpsteel.in/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
0d33d3f7accc92fdd60dbf912082de478929da664f047bbfbed4791982921d46
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6676 bytes