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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0aadbe31c63db05…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: a443f72877d336d33fd75bca18011cd1 SHA-1: 6b6e6fb2b6dde42c5d4815913d639c16c9585469 SHA-256: d0aadbe31c63db05e4a2f33abf307e21c7f68dea2128bf9ba6d346a4fed78544
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample contains Excel 4.0 macros that utilize dangerous functions like RUN and direct API calls to ShellExecute, indicating an attempt to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URL points to a suspicious domain, likely serving the malicious payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0' further supports the 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 https://oyefauji.com/ds/261120.gif
    • https://oyefauji.com/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
58a4f5727165121d868a3a8deb557c7e948c3b637eb6aacf726ea069bd257a4e
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6677 bytes