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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 723201a919f210e1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 0fc20f87869f1ed19fbc98cc5d2ade6a SHA-1: 740da32c4fcfdfb9c0a5b88749341b5683f84674 SHA-256: 723201a919f210e160c96a05c73af5759790a7a55a8885f1f0133598d2833f65
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This Excel 4.0 macro-enabled spreadsheet contains an Auto_Open macro that executes a CALL to Kernel32.dll's CreateA function, likely to download a second-stage payload from the embedded URL. The macro also references the URL https://feromon.shop/ds/231120.gif, which is used in conjunction with the CALL function. The presence of XLM macros and the ShellExecute API reference 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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