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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1237d20d33bca2ae…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

134.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 06898d28f84ffe708d67a029df25adcf SHA-1: 382787a30b526ccf851e16dfa4ed2388547b72f9 SHA-256: 1237d20d33bca2ae4258eaca08f9b85c7dc58212c75c02675596e28fa4424b52
302 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file contains VBA macros that trigger on workbook open, indicative of malicious intent. The macros reconstruct and attempt to download payloads from multiple URLs, a common technique for delivering second-stage malware. The presence of 'CreateObject' and references to 'wscript.shell' further suggest execution of downloaded content.

Heuristics 8

  • URL reconstructed from VBA cell-staged base64 dropper (11 URLs) critical OLE_VBA_CELL_DROPPER_URL
    VBA reads worksheet cells, strips junk substrings via Replace(), and base64/UTF-16 decodes the result into a PowerShell EncodedCommand payload. The download URL is never contiguous in the file bytes; it was recovered by removing the macro's Replace() junk tokens from the cell strings and decoding the staged base64.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0
  • 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
  • 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 http://sesco-ks.com/wp-content/DJkMVMU6cBr45/
    • https://sangwin.in/magnisapiente/UzYqb1lvgq/
    • http://actividades.laforetlanguages.com/wp-admin/OfFq/
    • http://sbcopylive.com.br/wp-admin/hvAXqZc4DyKBzDZO/
    • http://sep.dfwsolar.club/hzh3v/poAgyopszuh6a1EIG/
    • http://b-lubisi-motivational-speaker.com/wp-admin/Wf5rQabNRai/
    • http://mytelefonist.de/wp-content/bLm8fxV2M/
    • https://www.yeald.finance/wp-content/uploads/jqAorV83quhL23HMg/
    • http://tattooblog.cn/wp-includes/7AvyW/
    • http://docs-construction.com/wp-admin/jDDqg/
    • https://pmfstukm.com/wp-admin/SoenE35FXJBjVdnfME/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
d6216b1540c6d866e0cdc66ed3bfa2b79b477655c56d42a698e7b407351a97e3		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6560 bytes

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