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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdd4e013a93decf9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

332.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 79dd5d6462b29d905740c33742b68805 SHA-1: add24e316e11e3fa011d5ca3006e5030324c1604 SHA-256: cdd4e013a93decf940346d31614f93c2810e850380a070a987e7c4b9dce8a637
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 an Auto_Open function utilizing dangerous APIs like RUN, strongly indicates malicious intent. The macro is designed to execute external code, likely by downloading a payload from the embedded URL. The ClamAV detection name further supports this, identifying it 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
c8d4504c98e732b3946f99214663fda76453297a5fc2e4e085c3ff1af974258c
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6293 bytes