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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8ec71124c230d06…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: eefa97fe55b9d922d88fbb83e3ad96db SHA-1: fabdae9d89b451f0cf7399bc201a40fa275e3999 SHA-256: d8ec71124c230d06ac29bfee4c799fcb869b25df3ff28278c201d748e006cd62
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 CALL. This indicates an attempt to execute arbitrary code. The presence of embedded URLs suggests a downloader functionality, likely fetching and executing a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0' further supports this, pointing to a downloader disguised as a DocuSign document.

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://panzr.tech/ds/231120.gif
    • http://panzr.tech/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
c8b1e7a8344e098ddc3906ba00141dccfa02d07406793ff05618684390276899		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6057 bytes

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