Win.Trojan.Tristate-2 — Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0262e18b6f76ac39…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

30.0 KB Created: 1999-11-17 10:56:03 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 031ce2614dbb0e1c1a834431c663b1d6 SHA-1: 233f766b0de2efb8e79478f76e448bb7da5d0d54 SHA-256: 0262e18b6f76ac39521cd720c409d380d161eaa35ca89e239fa74e3fcf4ed839
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Tristate-2 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Win.Trojan.Tristate-2. Static analysis revealed VBA macros that utilize CreateObject and GetObject, indicative of malicious intent. The macro code attempts to modify registry keys related to Excel startup behavior, likely to establish persistence or facilitate payload execution. The presence of VBA macros strongly suggests this file was delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Tristate-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Tristate-2
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 30,720 bytes but its declared streams total only 8,173 bytes — 22,547 bytes (73%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
de99fe02810b2a5012800dc26094bcc7470b40691e63498db300df04769ba8df
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 9704 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Tristate-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely