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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cca6e36f5cb1cf3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

330.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 43cad412ac6e67c017e22e113b14187e SHA-1: 8678c19e70b2f08f2aad17887d8df8d658a489cc SHA-256: 5cca6e36f5cb1cf38098159e6c7c71d4a832cb8d16a5f928bfa3abaa0a6cd96a
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This Excel 4.0 macro-enabled workbook contains an Auto_Open macro that utilizes dangerous functions like RUN and CALL to execute code. The script attempts to construct a call to 'kernel32.CreateA' and references the URL 'https://rlink011.pw/ds/231120.gif', indicating it likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload. The presence of the Auto_Open macro and the use of ShellExecute API point towards an attempt to gain initial access.

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://rlink011.pw/ds/231120.gif

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
c461ade38d400d4a423d855884def8ceb5c41198f9e35b0fb284854a9f7c58df		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6059 bytes

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