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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34d1198a6368a020…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 90969b95bc4b4e08c92e0ca907ef5dc2 SHA-1: ba571a6a50e9f4c0d6fbd5e4d97ac2830bfe792a SHA-256: 34d1198a6368a02052bf7a25b924978711d111fb4f66306668298a705bb7e865
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 critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics indicate this is a malicious Excel 4.0 macro downloader. The XLM_AUTOOPEN and XLM_DANGEROUS_FN heuristics confirm the presence of an Auto_Open macro utilizing dangerous functions. The SC_STR_SHELLEXEC heuristic suggests the macro attempts to execute a downloaded payload. The embedded URL is likely used for this purpose.

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