MALICIOUS
160
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic
T1059.001 PowerShell
The file is a PowerPoint presentation containing a VBA macro. The Auto_Open macro is present and configured to execute a command via ShellExecute. This indicates the macro is designed to run arbitrary code, likely downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of 'macros.bas' suggests a script was extracted, which is the primary indicator of malicious behavior.
Heuristics 5
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Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXECReference to ShellExecute API
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Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOAuto_Open macro
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VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXECCompiled VBA/cache stream contains an auto-execution token together with shell/download/object-execution tokens. This catches p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where visible source is unavailable.
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VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROSDocument contains VBA macro code
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Suspicious extracted artifact medium EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne 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.
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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macros.bas3bbab5615a33f33776e6784ede34212eeecfd414ad928c3d11106bda641c8f6a |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) | 1077 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 3 shell/COM execution token(s).
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