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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cae4977d541d0e4a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: bc8b0624d1a112e7c47deab710e56c4f SHA-1: 3a095011d750c93f192f1d0e6b8a45fd04344531 SHA-256: cae4977d541d0e4a6efae891b76e5f39e26446718566eec598614f32fc53223b
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The presence of Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro utilizing dangerous functions like RUN, strongly indicates malicious intent. The macro is designed to execute code, likely downloading a secondary payload from the provided 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://boatssa.com/ds/231120.gif
    • https://boatssa.com/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
96eae7b570d4a9d4f225045676982008ec43ffa50f8643e2397db329f3c9bb6b		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6059 bytes

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