Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · be22a6b0d1b034ce

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

332.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: d11fb6b50f11cc72181364e73179a436 SHA-1: d82398df50be527aa2e9f419d747d8ff59943bd6 SHA-256: be22a6b0d1b034ce9c98c5f9cfce7c5518887a4bf70d933815f0f3a2de329da9

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open function that utilizes dangerous formulas like RUN and SHELLEXEC. This indicates the macro is designed to execute arbitrary commands. The embedded URL likely serves as a distribution point for a second-stage payload, which is a common downloader tactic. The ClamAV detection name further supports its role as a downloader.

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://dtmh.gr/ds/231120.gif

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `c8d4504c98e732b3946f99214663fda76453297a5fc2e4e085c3ff1af974258c`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	6293 bytes

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