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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec0db41c6f1ed6f7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

144.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: bc1a456aad0cf9bc5d7812b7dba8779d SHA-1: d64456d00fe04e5c07befc91985db360f0f95f58 SHA-256: ec0db41c6f1ed6f7ac2e8c116ad681ad7128b2faa8920978726a4e867e648959
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is an Excel 4.0 macro sheet that uses an Auto_Open macro to execute. It impersonates DocuSign to trick the user into enabling macros. The embedded URLs are likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The XLM macro sheet is heavily truncated, preventing a full analysis of its execution flow.

Heuristics 4

  • Excel 4.0 Auto_Open defined name critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME
    oletools recovered an Auto_Open / Auto_Close entry from an Excel 4.0 macro sheet. The raw BIFF name can be tokenized or partially opaque to byte-string checks, but the recovered macro listing confirms the workbook has an XLM auto-execution entry.
  • 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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • Document signing service impersonation lure medium SE_DOCUSIGN_LURE
    Document impersonates DocuSign, Adobe Sign, or a similar signing service in a signing-request context

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
5e5feba7ac6ef308fa74ad2052e0f89da4ae87559a31b5790ed416ca644d13a8
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 4794 bytes