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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e8568bec57a8443…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: afcd995ba37aef147fe559d8d910014a SHA-1: f08257f3ee0eb2a67772d4ed5a9e67e3a1bea1e1 SHA-256: 2e8568bec57a84437cae9c4209e28b6546779c4381b859510364b2a4636b6c92
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 sample is an Excel 4.0 macro-enabled spreadsheet. Heuristics indicate the presence of an Auto_Open macro that uses dangerous functions like RUN and ShellExecute. The embedded URL likely serves as a download location for a second-stage payload, as suggested by the ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader'. The macro's intent is to download and execute a payload from the provided URL.

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://feromon.shop/ds/231120.gif
    • https://feromon.shop/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
367ec1ce7aaed8f0977647fda6a625a5496cb60a2906548fc328342f8d2ce8db		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6060 bytes

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