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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e778bb44dfe8f04b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

329.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 12641c56f4d23dc215a09dfc81e2be8b SHA-1: ded56ccf9b0877b00a9f17a78578e5d986d86ce0 SHA-256: e778bb44dfe8f04b8b0f949bdcec819acc45113952fc388d15a415cc1d421849
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically triggering the Auto_Open heuristic with dangerous functions like RUN and ShellExecute. The embedded URL points to a GIF file, which is often used as a lure or a download location for malicious payloads. The presence of ShellExecute indicates an attempt to execute external commands, likely to download and run a second-stage payload from the provided URL.

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://cargohl.com/ds/161120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
de64c8aedb9841e9622ce89b4c2a59532a2613bac9a0b05117fd5443ba276b2f		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 7888 bytes

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