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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d326fabb95030fb9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: a146f7769b8fb8188b06bb028ec96d23 SHA-1: 5e01a6d5891117f82ef23249a6ab1f7a1dfcfc94 SHA-256: d326fabb95030fb915679db759ee85a816c58224ccd99405593b1ef84f127713
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open function that utilizes dangerous APIs like RUN and ShellExecute. This indicates the macro is designed to execute arbitrary commands. The presence of embedded URLs suggests the macro's primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload. 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://seligue.net/ds/231120.gif
    • https://seligue.net/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
7d52b160b251e749d24dcaa8a7221d3fa1a2d506bf23ecf06e056242a80d0dfe
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6297 bytes