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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5bc073043d0729f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

126.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 52b4fcf57e4fb524cf33503e8a5272ef SHA-1: d5b80e8ceaa81361da9ff6d18a4927dfd3b47d1a SHA-256: a5bc073043d0729f825df8302f425148ce8c65214a87094fe96fe9039ac7f088
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1071.001 Web Protocols

The presence of an Auto_Open macro and a reference to the URLDownloadToFile API strongly indicate that this Excel file is designed to download and execute a malicious payload. The embedded URLs are the most critical indicators for further investigation. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign112100-9908075-0' further supports the downloader functionality.

Heuristics 7

  • Reference to URLDownloadToFile API critical SC_STR_URLDOWNLOAD
    Reference to URLDownloadToFile API
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Docusign112100-9908075-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Docusign112100-9908075-0
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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://190.14.37.178/
    • http://185.183.96.67/
    • http://185.250.148.213/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
2ad1c1f87f2f014cbe63ca2d48e08b26c2e70089c21e82116f929d26c50b2d3f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 3654 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 shell/COM execution token(s).