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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b85278a7c336a498…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 6affd802b12b062fd46588f590c094d5 SHA-1: 419302dd8ce850430f420715473d8c35dad2c1ec SHA-256: b85278a7c336a49845d5264c845170d335e448651802008e8a2b2f5f10d142df
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an Excel file containing Excel 4.0 macros, indicated by the OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN and OLE_XLM_DANGEROUS_FN heuristics. The presence of ShellExecute API calls and dangerous formulas suggests the macro is intended to download and execute a second-stage payload from the embedded URL. 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://avra.dtmh.gr/ds/231120.gif
    • https://avra.dtmh.gr/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
8b13557c7c753c9d978b32b1134fab6c924344fc591b06bd0cf8f75d5ca380b6		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6060 bytes

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