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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ea36be2a4294eb7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: d61234a40707b8245e500494cf4a176b SHA-1: 865e2e5f9a035bafeec1b164d403165414356308 SHA-256: 5ea36be2a4294eb7e7af50fd0220da1cfc41909922d54501b18df38b2984e07b
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This Excel 4.0 macro-enabled workbook contains an Auto_Open macro that executes a CALL function. This function appears to be constructing and executing a command that includes a URL, 'https://feromon.shop/ds/231120.gif', likely to download a second-stage payload. The presence of ShellExecute API references and the use of dangerous formula APIs in the XLM macro further indicate 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://feromon.shop/ds/231120.gif
    • https://feromon.shop/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
367ec1ce7aaed8f0977647fda6a625a5496cb60a2906548fc328342f8d2ce8db		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6060 bytes

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