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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c36110051d2cbdc3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: b2172328de43377568911b8acc643a32 SHA-1: 4741c2aff23836f953f67e1dc33c73527142f4b3 SHA-256: c36110051d2cbdc3f0ccea10e189543356e1c76f9bf7b49676bc5718ee8e6ae5
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro that utilizes dangerous functions like RUN and ShellExecute. This indicates the macro is designed to execute arbitrary commands. The embedded URL suggests the macro's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV signature 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0' further supports this downloader functionality.

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://ski-travel.pl/ds/231120.gif
    • http://ski-travel.pl/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
d0d7060848f9e43377c289847dba3120f97cf87e725bc4bc328c35415fe210f7
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6298 bytes