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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef00923f7bb14afa…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: e58ecd5a0b50b08fb7f66fbfa7768d8b SHA-1: 849dee3aac5bc0b055f8ee9bc05a817bab6bc846 SHA-256: ef00923f7bb14afaf14097aa7dd106828ecabc320345730bb77f365bc4a1b930
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 macro that utilizes dangerous functions like RUN. This macro is designed to execute ShellExecute, indicating an attempt to download and run a secondary payload from the provided URL. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0' further supports the 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 http://fcco1936.com/ds/231120.gif
    • http://fcco1936.com/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
1df732b478dcf2e8e2d7a8e9f6d49c0e62fe9c357edaf30cf32b9f7c844e5e47
xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6297 bytes