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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80880ba10b84d80c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 5390c1cd5f8d71f5c496b5e0f1ef1444 SHA-1: d0192abe4aed550df1f9cfb77b8ced11534c1baf SHA-256: 80880ba10b84d80cc37d5d01a04247062457c40ebfeb17b864a25ce6945f74db
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically triggering the Auto_Open function with dangerous formulas like RUN. This indicates the macro is designed to execute arbitrary commands. The presence of ShellExecute API calls further supports this, suggesting the macro attempts to download and execute a secondary payload from the provided URL. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader' reinforces the downloader functionality.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • XLM Auto_Open with dangerous formula APIs high 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.
  • 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://5gict.com/ds/261120.gif
    • https://5gict.com/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
a172d04deb874bfc5428cadf9fe508e67386f425fa8a97e12d80c959c827f2d9
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6674 bytes