Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2010a303bccbcf7a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

41.6 KB Created: 2021-06-22 12:43:05 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300
MD5: 7b88b9f2fc90109390cb6c0525bd76d7 SHA-1: a696f5356dcc6dde16e2052e02184b07634503d6 SHA-256: 2010a303bccbcf7a552ca8940bd707768cde402e4dc7306895a0c20f1513a851
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The OOXML document contains VBA macros that reference PowerShell and cmd.exe, indicating an attempt to execute arbitrary commands. The presence of a GetObject call further suggests potential exploitation or payload execution. The VBA code includes a Base64 decoding function, which is commonly used to obfuscate malicious payloads.

Heuristics 4

  • PowerShell reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_PS
    PowerShell reference in VBA
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
dc92a4c793d26e315705478ace13f299647bdb3c4bc85816349fa986f91c0c0a
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 35036 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
fdcf422a9c68f827d8e34d68b53047574415cc28d06ae30a41de197e455d1620
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 11264 bytes