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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bc6e4f7e5cbe3d8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

129.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 8056d35903d03447a91068ff55cb81e8 SHA-1: 33a6a018495112a66dac3c1aea9a0800b623f528 SHA-256: 0bc6e4f7e5cbe3d8a0172fccf32e662115c4fafb1dde13171e5a8bdbf3b01151
300 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample contains an obfuscated VBA loader that executes a PowerShell command. This command is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from a list of hardcoded URLs, including 'https://fulnesses-safety.com//-/P6x/', 'https://nabajyotiundation.com/da8uc7jo/4Za/', and 'http://formula8020.com/cs/56Dzi0P/'. The presence of Workbook_Open and CreateObject heuristics, along with the detected ClamAV signature, strongly indicates a downloader family.

Heuristics 7

  • Obfuscated auto-exec VBA loader critical OLE_VBA_OBFUSCATED_AUTOEXEC_LOADER
    Auto-exec VBA reconstructs strings with a heavy custom decoder (numeric char-array, repeated hex-string decode, or junk-token Replace removal) and feeds them to a COM-instantiation or execution sink. This obfuscated-loader shape keeps CreateObject/Shell/URL indicators out of the macro source.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0
  • Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT
    Reference to Windows Script Host
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled VBA/cache stream contains an auto-execution token together with shell/download/object-execution tokens. This catches p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where visible source is unavailable.
  • 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
7a075e02dc1e88807280b9b84946715e79a3c091d50391301434649c77b78ea1
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12808 bytes