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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33f43c0bc3e84a99…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .EXE

79.5 KB Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: cc39f043a39dbe83d25c9c2d366bc800 SHA-1: e31bd9fd16296db8696acc001c0fc29fe7531ab0 SHA-256: 33f43c0bc3e84a9961fdaaf52201b640cc367ce1896ca99187411e6632fef19b
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The macro attempts to save itself as 'PLDT.XLS' in the startup path, likely to establish persistence or facilitate the execution of a secondary payload. The presence of 'laroux' markers and ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature as a variant of the Laroux macro virus.

Heuristics 5

  • Excel 5 Laroux/Larou-CV macro-virus marker cluster critical OLE_XLS5_LAROUX_MACRO_VIRUS
    Legacy Excel workbook contains a Laroux/Larou-CV macro-virus marker cluster including auto_open execution and workbook/module replication strings. This is a narrow indicator for an infected legacy Excel macro workbook.
  • 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
366245e8555da7043edd6a1238f613c67398c6a762e65588d8fafe7899f63c20
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2118 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Trojan.Laroux-28
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely