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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 291a081e38d4d12a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

377.5 KB Created: 2020-11-24 22:48:52
MD5: a44f4a190009c6693931456977dd15f8 SHA-1: eeab923586eb77237c9a9e9ca110eb28f935c868 SHA-256: 291a081e38d4d12af7da73e4fafe9d2a9e001bc88e0f1a503037b7ffedcd4b68
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The XLS file contains VBA macros that execute a PowerShell command. This command downloads an executable from 'sparepartiran.com' and then runs it. The embedded PowerShell command is a strong indicator of a downloader or droppper functionality, aiming to fetch and execute further malicious content.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Sagent-10035294-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Malware.Sagent-10035294-0
  • Reference to PowerShell high SC_STR_POWERSHELL
    Reference to PowerShell
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • Visible LOLBin command execution instruction high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Document contains instructions or visible command text involving Windows script/execution tools such as PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, or regsvr32
  • 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://sparepartiran.com/js/2Q/Bolgkwpzwqs8.exe

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
d8c08c571e433de26cf4d62506c6a4da98ef7829429b8bf051ae2bd98849e35d
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1700 bytes