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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4d769f9362226c9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 0f26f2957b82b2d53ba0e41cbd26519f SHA-1: 902c38c2bd287f6291d54955d359ca524dab0fa1 SHA-256: f4d769f9362226c91338fe14d42a07b4e327d5131c66a3772e7ebfea40d8a2aa
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 an Excel 4.0 macro with Auto_Open and dangerous functions like RUN indicates a downloader. The macro likely uses ShellExecute to download and execute a payload from the embedded URL. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Docusign0521-9864805-0' further supports the downloader functionality, suggesting a lure related to document signing services.

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