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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3776549225fea6c8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

409.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 7a4ee63e2e2aacea7ffa5d4f27261347 SHA-1: c47ebf9357eaa3984e2a977a77469f2097004bda SHA-256: 3776549225fea6c85372989034fb8d4d0d94eeca4ba33e8473d50898afea6533
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is a macro-enabled Excel spreadsheet containing Auto_Open and Auto_Close macros, indicating an attempt to automatically execute code upon opening. The presence of the URLDownloadToFile API reference strongly suggests the macro's intent is to download and execute a second-stage payload from one of the embedded URLs. The VBA script itself is heavily obfuscated and truncated, making a precise analysis of its actions difficult, but the overall pattern points to a downloader.

Heuristics 6

  • Reference to URLDownloadToFile API critical SC_STR_URLDOWNLOAD
    Reference to URLDownloadToFile API
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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://190.14.37.173/
    • http://111.90.148.104/
    • http://51.89.115.111/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
56c0ee2129bf6ddf3a752d33fd7fa867cfc834d82cd12f3c855f07531734066f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 3792 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 shell/COM execution token(s).