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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34ac27459b6ee01f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

52.0 KB Created: 2022-10-06 08:24:44 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-10-06
MD5: fb6771955df4260b7d854dfc31231fba SHA-1: fc27ac098512bd3de679501183ba9bfc1ac80ce9 SHA-256: 34ac27459b6ee01fe98d574cfca00c32182a52cd02bdb457f0113b1978d84893
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains VBA macros that utilize the Shell() function to execute commands and CreateObject to interact with the system. The macro attempts to download a payload from the obfuscated URL '3uAr7l;hLt21tKOp3s0:/12Q/Ss7Nim3SipiOO8mi.20cDOoVm5'. This indicates a downloader functionality, aiming to fetch and execute further malicious content.

Heuristics 5

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.b83ac4c497e169b5-9980307-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.b83ac4c497e169b5-9980307-0
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON
    Environ() call (env variable access)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
923e80110eaaf8988488643d1b3137e7f8ec4522c327f1e2aee8f922c07d8719
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 3400 bytes