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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8c9eeedeeabab70…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

332.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 66718840a1cb6d27634717b68e36862a SHA-1: ee89f46300bd3481f30cea0515bbedf19c77c38c SHA-256: c8c9eeedeeabab70d5ec825e3bdd519f53d013763888ca78cf939c864f1a6ed9
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The presence of Excel 4.0 macros, specifically the Auto_Open function utilizing dangerous APIs like RUN and ShellExecute, indicates a malicious intent to execute arbitrary commands. The embedded URL suggests a downloader mechanism. The ClamAV detection further supports the malicious classification.

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://dashboard.imadeit.com.ng/ds/151120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
4d5531650e0faf8764ddd7b14e6947143c32308cbf699d36f8845764b3b4560a
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 5603 bytes