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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee6e76451ab7ef09…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 4e384f8a349a74c860cdf00bac7f68e2 SHA-1: 47ce76de2c3a5d84daccd1cba716f7d8213ff0cc SHA-256: ee6e76451ab7ef091a29eebf78da4a83281de1ea7b54bc91ac1e3efda4f47912
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 presence of Excel 4.0 macros, specifically the Auto_Open function utilizing dangerous APIs like RUN, strongly indicates a malicious downloader. The macro likely executes ShellExecute to download and run a payload from the provided URL. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0' further supports this assessment.

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://jpsteel.in/ds/261120.gif
    • https://jpsteel.in/ds/261120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
0d33d3f7accc92fdd60dbf912082de478929da664f047bbfbed4791982921d46
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6676 bytes