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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 580371fd01417dbe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 48773af1602e1aee9b07c2c2a61e48aa SHA-1: ab64cd99b0e8eed53c65fb1eaef053bdcbf74aab SHA-256: 580371fd01417dbe576bdd634cf75022f0b1701a64aa9fec46eb4da6a0ca6d7c
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 and SHELLEXEC. This indicates the macro is designed to download and execute a secondary payload from the embedded URL. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0' further supports the 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://kenas888.com/ds/231120.gif
    • https://kenas888.com/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
6dd2ce04afad0a05495adb4f6301aeb41dcc78e9673b9399eb28871054a28e1a		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6060 bytes

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