Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 010d33b20bcc73f2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

41.6 KB Created: 2021-06-22 12:43:05 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300
MD5: 26bd40d97fdb4fc4d625227e39307805 SHA-1: fc32a97ce2da8721207e8077bdc8902346690843 SHA-256: 010d33b20bcc73f205295f2e2b80018f4c4a0db35f1d659d9f8f326d9a6c847b
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an Office document containing VBA macros. Heuristics indicate the VBA code references PowerShell and cmd.exe, and uses GetObject. The VBA code itself appears to be heavily obfuscated, but its structure suggests it's designed to decode and execute a secondary payload, likely via PowerShell. This points to a downloader or droppper functionality.

Heuristics 4

  • PowerShell reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_PS
    PowerShell reference in VBA
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
d88336e91cee92959a000bb7fad50134c0c93ea7a6eff472bc8e3b22d76a55b2
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 35036 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
6c7a7d28bc67f4cd2204365204fe074be1801ec5dc6d50e8a7932eca2f308da1
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 11264 bytes