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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d63b6f4b206ddacd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 0f4dde2257538b1f4d6b7bcb1260b1c6 SHA-1: 834691a8690c915e11467175264fe5dc9864c2e9 SHA-256: d63b6f4b206ddacdbbe982ec101d8b74783721a0a0d3ad1d8c442c6b804382d4
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.004 Unix Shell

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro that utilizes dangerous functions like RUN. This macro is designed to execute code, likely to download and run a secondary payload from the embedded URL http://sadgad.ru/ds/231120.gif. The presence of ShellExecute API calls further supports the execution of external commands. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0' suggests a 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 http://sadgad.ru/ds/231120.gif

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
3bec9e172ccd232a06c19125f84a780ce4976b1b3bed592580b4a95a301f6034
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6294 bytes