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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 246c4ae19799d04a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .PPT

60.0 KB Created: 2022-11-01 04:07:35 Authoring application: Microsoft Office PowerPoint
MD5: 89cedbf0fe8f027fc0f7e17c4b6f88d1 SHA-1: 5b868deb65743cf73673a49b0bdc3fde67f6e954 SHA-256: 246c4ae19799d04a3077cee589bdc284ce52960ec9de58662be7cd1f7cf919df
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PowerPoint file containing VBA macros, specifically an Auto_Close macro that executes a shell command. This indicates the file is designed to run malicious code upon opening or closing. The macro likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from the embedded URL. The URL itself was flagged as confirmed benign, but the macro execution is still a high-risk indicator.

Heuristics 4

  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close 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.
  • 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 https://bitbucket.org/!api/2.0/snippets/newwork123social/rE55r8/91761117ac837c16d089b87e32bbd61f39574e0c/files/usmanmain-1.txt

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
5b6bc6f840f67b081b1faa8181bb6e4493ab6355ab8659f0631d4b9db9a36fac
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 728 bytes