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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb5ad54083003880…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 7c4dcbdf63258828435f38b34fcacdd1 SHA-1: a9c57698e214a7daa72206f0b7abb0f807c298f8 SHA-256: eb5ad5408300388056fe8788a7c8694fe87ced8b2ff7ea9b5727bc72d11f755b
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File T1071.001 Web Protocols T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro that utilizes dangerous functions like RUN and ShellExecute. This indicates the macro is designed to execute arbitrary commands. The presence of embedded URLs suggests a downloader functionality, aiming to retrieve and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature as a downloader.

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://tured.net/ds/261120.gif
    • https://tured.net/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
4805caad40efa88359221773489543a181039fb59e7111454d99230bce3bd306
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6674 bytes