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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c5ddd3f6a700065…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 8ded4033385fd45871eb7bf2c2c32ef4 SHA-1: 6d67b9cc81363901005940785524f48bc30a5e6a SHA-256: 4c5ddd3f6a70006581beb33c5d5545081efc0c39674a3e574ee6b7616849b508
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 function that utilizes dangerous APIs like RUN. This indicates an attempt to execute arbitrary code, likely to download a secondary payload from the provided URL. The ShellExecute API reference further supports this, suggesting the execution of external commands. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader' also aligns with this observed behavior.

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://5gict.com/ds/261120.gif
    • https://5gict.com/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
a172d04deb874bfc5428cadf9fe508e67386f425fa8a97e12d80c959c827f2d9
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6674 bytes