Office (OLE) malware analysis — malicious · 166e48faaaae49f2

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

343.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20

MD5: b11b59f8b566048f4d57962eea548076 SHA-1: ce410e9091d92cacca15afb770311e069e9efa44 SHA-256: 166e48faaaae49f2d925c49d0febf96f0c9c8acd7457c1b542a60227b9068e4c

508 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is an Office document with a Workbook_Open VBA macro that executes a dropped PE executable. The macro uses ShellExecuteA via a PtrSafe declaration to call 'rundll32' with arguments that suggest it will load and execute a DLL, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded PE executable and the suspicious VBA auto-execution indicate a malicious intent to compromise the system.

Heuristics 15

Embedded PE executable critical OLE_EMBEDDED_EXE

MZ/PE header found inside document — possible embedded executable
Reference to CreateProcess API high SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS

Reference to CreateProcess API
Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXEC

Reference to ShellExecute API
Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY

Reference to LoadLibrary API
Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS

Reference to GetProcAddress API
Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN

Workbook_Open macro
Ole10Native package carries executable/script file type high OFFICE_PACKAGE_RISKY_FILE

OLE Package displayName or fullPath ends in an executable or script-capable extension. Even without UI extension spoofing, embedding a runnable payload inside an Office document is a high-risk delivery pattern.
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.
Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE

Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
NOP-equivalent sled detected medium SC_NOP_EQUIV_SLED

Long run of 0x40 bytes
Reference to VirtualAlloc API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALALLOC

Reference to VirtualAlloc API
Reference to VirtualProtect API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALPROTECT

Reference to VirtualProtect API
VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS

Document contains VBA macro code
Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON

Environ() call (env variable access)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `d2233606c870b49b0cb48a4294912a57af28cda30621f31fbca9eaa7c4cdc249`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	2074 bytes
`embedded_office_00001265.exe` `3046a6fe669d43eac41bf0c665810fd9d730956d92124195a6963a4836799889`	embedded-pe	Office MZ+PE at offset 0x1265	346523 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
`ole10native_00.bin` `9d3027d937dbbc4b6c7d85c4c82e08654d1bc7c2787c7c4e9d8a4cbf11356580`	ole-package	OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD0132A5F4/Ole10Native	205073 bytes

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