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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4613ab0e4afd23fc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 3ca0d59cbd899b58b505a34ad39a92fb SHA-1: 1b9d1bbcfbbfe389380db752c91661bb773c5c24 SHA-256: 4613ab0e4afd23fcbec69b7cae3b1120150c71c861e108c242ed8dad1ece48c9
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 and CALL. This indicates the macro is designed to execute arbitrary code. The presence of ShellExecute API calls further supports this, suggesting the macro attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from the provided URL. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0' also points to a 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://zerones.biz/ds/261120.gif
    • https://zerones.biz/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
7fbdfe5319125c7a88728c7d99286583a9907fcc6c0161898412d727b081f128		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6676 bytes

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