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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ecd852d78d7e9b9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: a3e485f1237f1b333ae5d5202e4067b9 SHA-1: 457b9e9d328c17ad99946ddaa0296261d1d1e99e SHA-256: 9ecd852d78d7e9b94fd6e175460f8303a338dd0439783423a745981311fe0f7b
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 (XLM) with an Auto_Open function that utilizes dangerous APIs like RUN and CALL. This indicates the macro is designed to execute arbitrary code. The presence of embedded URLs suggests the macro's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader' further supports this assessment.

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://fisicamp.com/ds/231120.gif
    • https://fisicamp.com/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
3ee92379b19800bb1e16b96d76e4f31800c6dabf549bf8665d8d4ceab7eae6c0		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6060 bytes

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