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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cfd47b40848001d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 79287761770fc09c72de16eb1accc148 SHA-1: e6814f3ff83a26f81a7fdac83b866d84cac7697d SHA-256: 2cfd47b40848001dbef3a4160625577d04037f42830ba766468f02ce7977b3c1
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 and ShellExecute. This indicates the macro is designed to execute arbitrary code. The presence of embedded URLs suggests a downloader functionality, aiming to fetch and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0' further supports this assessment.

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://boatssa.com/ds/231120.gif
    • https://boatssa.com/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
96eae7b570d4a9d4f225045676982008ec43ffa50f8643e2397db329f3c9bb6b		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6059 bytes

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