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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d696ae410a5d979…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

174.0 KB Created: 2021-10-25 16:35:38 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: bd18be88c0a34575aabd1afdc779f455 SHA-1: 6744d3449ec7f709f2f8b137b9fd17291776bdb7 SHA-256: 1d696ae410a5d9795a08b27c51e140f9f00eae1de90c2b50f99eeb74fab91732
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an Excel spreadsheet containing a VBA macro with an Auto_Open function. This function utilizes a Shell() call, indicating an attempt to execute external commands. The script appears to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, though the exact details are obfuscated and truncated. The presence of an Auto_Open macro and a Shell() call strongly suggests a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

Heuristics 5

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
592008b4dad11f2d50f44f1b0a8e9138fedeedfda41278b46c55e0f904f9d4fd
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 3477 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.