Office (OOXML) malware analysis — malicious · 2af1e96329f2159b

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

26.5 KB Created: 2021-08-18 02:04:39 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300

MD5: b4692e99454c08161e24402c0f5fccdf SHA-1: 246f1178e42f97e2f97e1371cd771c6bca17fdca SHA-256: 2af1e96329f2159bfa35a4508d2e583a55690ed57e01d6572e2029153422a320

610 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer T1204.002 Malicious File T1071.001 Web Protocols

The sample contains VBA macros that execute automatically upon opening (Auto_Open). These macros utilize WScript.Shell and CreateObject to download a file from the embedded URL 'http://ec2-18-184-17-12.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com/standardchartered/passleak/180821/' and save it as 'Details.dat' in the temporary directory. The document body suggests a 'Password Leaked' theme, aligning with a phishing or credential harvesting lure. The presence of WMI process creation further indicates malicious intent to execute downloaded payloads.

Heuristics 14

Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL

Shell() call in VBA
WScript.Shell usage critical OLE_VBA_WSCRIPT

WScript.Shell usage
Obfuscated VBA Shell command with URL critical OLE_VBA_OBFUSCATED_SHELL_URL

VBA macro invokes Shell with command text assembled through decoder or string-manipulation functions and includes a URL. This is a high-confidence downloader/dropper pattern, stronger than Shell or URL evidence on their own.
VBA WMI Win32_Process launcher critical OLE_VBA_WMI_PROCESS_CREATE

VBA macro builds or references a WMI moniker for Win32_Process and invokes .Create to start a command. This is a high-confidence macro execution chain that often hides the WMI class name through string concatenation or helper functions.
VBA downloads and writes a file to disk critical OLE_VBA_HTTP_DROP_EXEC

VBA reads an HTTP response body and writes it to disk (ADODB.Stream SaveToFile). Combined with the auto-exec/Shell paths this is a download-drop dropper even when the COM ProgIDs are built dynamically to evade keyword scanning.
ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Valyria-10026858-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Valyria-10026858-0
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
CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ

CreateObject call
GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ

GetObject call
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 project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA

Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON

Environ() call (env variable access)
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://ec2-18-184-17-12.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com/standardchartered/passleak/180821/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `a8790a3f8350b95b2c7b337c0f8e5bc10d99b65ef551f8b60806575fbce2a670`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML)	4717 bytes
`vbaProject_00.bin` `3064bbb523cd828dff528c7ddcf57cfafc8330d8c313d74cb413b105de021f91`	vba-project	OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin	18432 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Valyria-10026858-0 Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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