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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c3d9e1a3e81fec0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 70560f469d257ed3863746451e374ccd SHA-1: 642b11bc3cd1765768dda289c0ece706f1ad84ce SHA-256: 5c3d9e1a3e81fec05b142c83edebd49a3b4bfc10f91dae5204369f1e6348e27f
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, including an Auto_Open macro, which is a critical finding. The macros utilize dangerous functions like RUN and CALL, and appear to construct strings that are then used in these calls, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload from the embedded URL. The presence of ShellExecute API calls further supports this malicious intent.

Heuristics 6

  • Excel 4.0 Auto_Open defined name critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME
    oletools recovered an Auto_Open / Auto_Close entry from an Excel 4.0 macro sheet. The raw BIFF name can be tokenized or partially opaque to byte-string checks, but the recovered macro listing confirms the workbook has an XLM auto-execution entry.
  • XLM Auto_Open with dangerous formula APIs critical 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.
  • 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
  • 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://bgms.co.in/ds/261120.gif
    • https://bgms.co.in/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
e213645668ce9f5d68f4226afb5b9b5e6c2ad49807658d9b833212b471c7c00d		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6675 bytes

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