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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e3a69f03c7f7945…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

329.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: bd22b33a00077961ea74d98434dfae46 SHA-1: e93344ed2e76980325734a5d6ddba12b7d1003ca SHA-256: 9e3a69f03c7f7945297e08798feeef7af92550188f7d9adddd5ac2915c7a90bc
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.004 Unix Shell

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro that utilizes dangerous functions like RUN. This suggests the macro is designed to execute arbitrary code. The presence of a ShellExecute API reference further supports this, indicating an attempt to launch external processes. The embedded URL likely serves as a C2 or download location for a secondary payload, consistent with a downloader malware.

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 http://i.sfu.edu.ph/ds/161120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
e17e7cc4a238aa7ef2e84a739a77bbc946bb2881b6aa82203097e9ab8210d20f		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6273 bytes

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