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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52920d56144b3029…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 892c97e0984ab230662e0c6d5eeb41e1 SHA-1: 91293d8628b4a6d38b6d5b7e620f68b85706b149 SHA-256: 52920d56144b3029ee869fc7aedd3b8d56db1ff2e998267d272e90cb0c62a1fc
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an Excel 4.0 macro-enabled spreadsheet. Heuristics indicate the presence of an Auto_Open macro that uses dangerous functions, including ShellExecute, to likely download and execute a payload from the provided URLs. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0' further supports its role as a downloader.

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://binbios.com/ds/261120.gif
    • https://binbios.com/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
db00faaaa5dfbd9a76904fe95aa20bad9a05f6214a6081cc43218c3c9509e31c
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6676 bytes