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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8829dd6adc8fbbdd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

329.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: b1d00ea227375fe72073ba1a570d1758 SHA-1: b79fde6026ada5d2edb735235643fa49f7002b81 SHA-256: 8829dd6adc8fbbdd69820b6b787eea2061176e18ba5ebc25117d72cab4441f98
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro that utilizes dangerous functions like RUN. The macro is designed to execute ShellExecute, indicating it likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload from the embedded URL. The document body and embedded URL suggest a lure related to DocuSign, likely to trick users into opening the malicious file.

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://myscape.in/ds/161120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
c7e4e7ed3c1ce4a0357cad7ea2d4765567912ff9637c55ef23ac64833b3a62a6		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6274 bytes

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