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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6366819f9fe314a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: f82a9be5604f791a749fc7421b00a59a SHA-1: 8439d978aa02edc59d34e5f3f3bde01adbc87030 SHA-256: e6366819f9fe314a6de4ef4251ca7de89929a2d8192ad85ba6c4afafd0ea44bb
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open function that utilizes dangerous APIs like RUN and SHELLEXEC. 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 second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0' further supports this 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://avra.dtmh.gr/ds/231120.gif
    • https://avra.dtmh.gr/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
8b13557c7c753c9d978b32b1134fab6c924344fc591b06bd0cf8f75d5ca380b6
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6060 bytes