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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d730212b8b657ff5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: e1f520417a62574845e45602938654c3 SHA-1: e2aa7e14baeec4ae8a9f135991ed4fff21151329 SHA-256: d730212b8b657ff5cf329a3e1e18c29d61a152a4b65ccbbecc3ff097fe909eba
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 sample contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically triggering an Auto_Open function that utilizes dangerous APIs like ShellExecute and RUN. This indicates the macro is designed to execute arbitrary commands. The embedded URL likely serves as the source for downloading and executing a secondary payload, consistent with downloader malware behavior. The ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature.

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