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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31490f383dfb2342…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.52 MB Created: 2009-08-26 05:32:19 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: eeb39553ec79bc975b4ed62f28d93f2c SHA-1: a340617b85a79ae2918afc073b7fa567c107958f SHA-256: 31490f383dfb234298208fba9233a0360f8fd28b70f8c2797b16727fe74ffadc
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an Excel file containing a large VBA macro, indicated by the OLE_VBA_MACROS heuristic. The presence of a Workbook_Open macro and CreateObject calls, along with VBA p-code auto-execution, strongly suggests malicious intent. The macro likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, as evidenced by the 'macros.bas' artifact and the obfuscated VBA strings. The document body content appears to be Japanese text related to data entry and reporting, likely serving as a lure.

Heuristics 5

  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
b70d95e1ea913d9c57eee37ea574ac3f46adb1c6d3fe0cf73350738cda39d042
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 206688 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 29 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls. Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.