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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b74e23b8d28b079…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: c06c8106f8e157abcc0a9eed772ae250 SHA-1: 4500a7e40bc760c94cdca34990ff83d28e045058 SHA-256: 2b74e23b8d28b0790d2018779b195b750fc17ba329f7193e18dadd4b09f34143
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains an Excel 4.0 macro (Auto_Open) that utilizes dangerous functions like RUN, indicating it's designed to execute arbitrary code. The presence of ShellExecute API calls further supports this, suggesting the macro is intended to download and execute a secondary payload from the embedded URL. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader' reinforces the 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://oyefauji.com/ds/261120.gif
    • https://oyefauji.com/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
58a4f5727165121d868a3a8deb557c7e948c3b637eb6aacf726ea069bd257a4e
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6677 bytes