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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e7eb348afad1ae3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

50.0 KB Created: 1996-12-17 01:32:42 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: e12ec1254bd6024892cd9f31e965fdc6 SHA-1: 454239465844f4dae508f09ea3bf4ed662402f0e SHA-256: 3e7eb348afad1ae3984b1fcea91fe82ce88cfd117b5932aef94f862bed4e4540
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet containing VBA macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. ClamAV detected this as Doc.Macro.Laroux-5893719-0. While no specific payload URLs or commands were extracted, the presence of the Auto_Open macro strongly suggests the intent to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Macro.Laroux-5893719-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.Laroux-5893719-0
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
ca590847096b3669ec12a4d0805613ab988f88c2ad6a348525f2a9f021510892
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1824 bytes