Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 368f1ba17dfb8a45…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

732.0 KB Created: 2019-08-30 09:14:50 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 973bfe28b3060593e030509a1cbd2032 SHA-1: cacb3eb484471fbe49edd9166b4957a2246c4cd5 SHA-256: 368f1ba17dfb8a45dcc0a455637f7cac97868c0234a16493b958ce3587f409eb
400 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is an Office document containing VBA macros. Heuristics indicate the use of Shell(), VirtualAlloc, LoadLibrary, and GetProcAddress, suggesting the macros are designed to download and execute a secondary payload. An embedded PE executable was also detected. The document body content is obfuscated and does not provide further context on the lure.

Heuristics 10

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • Embedded PE executable critical OLE_EMBEDDED_EXE
    MZ/PE header found inside document — possible embedded executable
  • ClamAV: Win.Dropper.Hideproc-6663113-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Dropper.Hideproc-6663113-0
  • 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.
  • Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT
    Reference to Windows Script Host
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API
  • Reference to VirtualAlloc API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALALLOC
    Reference to VirtualAlloc API
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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://www.microsoft.com0
    • http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/MicrosoftTimeStampPCA.crl0X
    • http://www.microsoft.com/pki/certs/MicrosoftTimeStampPCA.crt0
    • http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/MicCodSigPCA_08-31-2010.crl0Z
    • http://www.microsoft.com/pki/certs/MicCodSigPCA_08-31-2010.crt0
    • http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/microsoftrootcert.crl0T
    • http://www.microsoft.com/pki/certs/MicrosoftRootCert.crt0

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
888c70d21f83f913161586d9572083be4266d3106ae0f87526fc31f336071aa6
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 14358 bytes
embedded_office_000044f1.exe
f4752333e6c2084dcbbb4211f4a549155842ca4cc28c74b4a8787fd9ba59756e
embedded-pe Office MZ+PE at offset 0x44F1 731919 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Dropper.Hideproc-6663113-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
ole10native_00.bin
9dc5a0bfb900a50933edcd585ffcbc4bed2af044e653c6df90ad0229c5fd64db
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD00059305/Ole10Native 618013 bytes