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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe497d2e92c6d162…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

331.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 69814786dcd853a629382aec92a669db SHA-1: 3ad560db4cd19a3f742e9e2f4944214b9f33b4d3 SHA-256: fe497d2e92c6d1621a2e68a547b3883083883bca88b592cc79e31ddc4c096d9a
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.004 Scripting - Microsoft JScript T1059.001 PowerShell

The presence of Excel 4.0 macros, specifically the Auto_Open function utilizing dangerous APIs like RUN, strongly indicates malicious intent. The heuristic firings suggest the macro is designed to execute external commands via ShellExecute, likely to download and run a secondary payload from the provided URL. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader' 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://justhrng.com/ds/231120.gif
    • https://justhrng.com/ds/231120.gif�

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
9badecf38f0cfde72dfd647ab7be67f2ec36dad7a41b3ad4474856d47fd4391b		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 6060 bytes

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