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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c00430991a28daf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

129.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 8d6af41ee21d0d24be9a8c0443464f3f SHA-1: 2ac4cb1b47a63c03afe242137c03bc460810f726 SHA-256: 5c00430991a28daff019acc9d8c4abdabf88b60aaf49d31d34bf6836dea48caf
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The presence of Auto_Open and Auto_Close macros, along with a critical heuristic firing for URLDownloadToFile, indicates that this Excel file is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URLs are the most critical indicators for further investigation. The VBA code itself appears to be primarily for document manipulation, but the macro execution and API call strongly suggest malicious intent.

Heuristics 6

  • Reference to URLDownloadToFile API critical SC_STR_URLDOWNLOAD
    Reference to URLDownloadToFile API
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Docusign112100-9908075-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Docusign112100-9908075-0
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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 http://190.14.37.165/
    • http://5.196.247.11/
    • http://188.119.113.3/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
fde66e20711a7f15978b94a5a866f07b9d20ea1d8f560b84fb649e896abaaf38
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 4585 bytes