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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c385f53adf0167d3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: afaea08a71ed1339729dd8a5a3231226 SHA-1: cbf0663cf176d9619f028e3c3b84cc02059e4c89 SHA-256: c385f53adf0167d37a5624031676f647fee6db1d0e5ce162feb6ad9c987b5352
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The sample contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro that utilizes dangerous functions like RUN. This macro is designed to execute external commands, likely to download and run a secondary payload from the provided URL. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader' further supports this analysis.

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