Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32a55b07fc7aba6a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

59.7 KB Created: 2016-12-09 10:21:12 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300 First seen: 2020-07-24
MD5: 70083368620262d0ddef2c19f33f9134 SHA-1: 4904b41339572ca00fdffe9c099e049f41d8945e SHA-256: 32a55b07fc7aba6a319e835c54096dd034c3859a5c48db3ce0e8375f78a45507
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This Excel document contains embedded OLE objects, and critically, one of these objects contains a VBA macro project. The presence of a macro project strongly suggests that the document is designed to execute malicious code upon opening, likely through a spearphishing attachment vector. The ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Macro.Injection-6355574-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.Injection-6355574-0
  • Embedded Office object carries macros critical OFFICE_EMBEDDED_MACRO_OBJECT
    This document embeds a second Office file that itself contains a VBA macro project or an Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet. Hiding a macro-bearing workbook or document inside another document — frequently under an obfuscated, non-standard part name — is a macro-smuggling technique that defeats scanners which only inspect the outer document's macro storage. No benign authoring workflow stages a hidden macro project this way.
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: xl/embeddings/Microsoft_Excel_Worksheet.xlsx 45082 bytes
SHA-256: 397fc306b6a1aa8ac070cc97b5918b9447136bdee9b9acdf7a82cee84e2e049d
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Macro.Injection-6355574-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
ooxml_oleobject_01.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: xl/embeddings/Microsoft_Excel_Worksheet.xlsx!xl/embeddings/Microsoft_Excel_Worksheet.xlsx 29988 bytes
SHA-256: 468ddaf679a3b7da8ef8d4ebfa8e00d3ad938a31a5b097f8b2499844a1d12a83
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Macro.Injection-6355574-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
ooxml_oleobject_02.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: xl/embeddings/Microsoft_Excel_Worksheet.xlsx!xl/embeddings/Microsoft_Excel_Worksheet.xlsx!xl/embeddings/Microsoft_Excel_Macro-Enabled_Worksheet.xlsm 17428 bytes
SHA-256: 0e6209f8f91d9bcc2953672ca7910e44df7539d1118321d599d75b6c900a5b4c
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Macro.Injection-6355574-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
emf_00.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: xl/media/image1.emf 50972 bytes
SHA-256: 13cd756bc5a28c6e44d1da81dbe64053a07f03b9a01380052808fca9dae9f8a1