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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2aa37c6685876d42…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .EXE

65.5 KB Created: 1980-01-04 17:26:50 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 38669508f5d43487e467a5877d5a9c07 SHA-1: 672e184526705045f4274ac1d765a6b3e5f78557 SHA-256: 2aa37c6685876d42df18f72532ab9807a6deb490e012bc8fabfc1b8a3c8b4645
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as Xls.Trojan.Laroux-28. It contains a VBA macro, specifically an Auto_Open macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. The macro's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload, although the specific details of the payload execution are not discernible from the provided heuristics alone.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Xls.Trojan.Laroux-28 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Trojan.Laroux-28
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • 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
b2be538da4eed3d1006013753af4523f28663b90a8d512b9f794f895d0e8ab09
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1859 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Trojan.Laroux-28
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely