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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e2751d0db66ba37…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: fe52fb27251961798579d12a0ec48a04 SHA-1: 25c99e58bec9bb54ebfb86c46f6afd63a727a3b6 SHA-256: 2e2751d0db66ba37c8fdfd48e44b492a1b8614dc4d50d2db9e6d5cde820e2b83
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 code. The presence of ShellExecute API references further supports this, suggesting the macro attempts to download and execute a second-stage 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://tured.net/ds/261120.gif
    • https://tured.net/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
4805caad40efa88359221773489543a181039fb59e7111454d99230bce3bd306
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6674 bytes