Malicious Office (OOXML) / .XLSM — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e83e9b5c418ef62…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSM

558.8 KB Created: 2020-06-22 10:41:03 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300
MD5: e93c758765644a33d79c5109b92f8a07 SHA-1: c15bc27a40607d6b76bb93d6ea415f705df9b855 SHA-256: 3e83e9b5c418ef62800e2103c807b64f84a0cbe6369be51092fbaaccda624e71
348 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an XLSM file containing a Workbook_Open macro that utilizes Shell() and CreateObject() calls, indicating an attempt to execute arbitrary code. ClamAV signatures confirm this is a packed Excel macro malware. The presence of these indicators strongly suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 10

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Xls.Packed.Logan-9738662-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Packed.Logan-9738662-0
  • 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.
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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.
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON
    Environ() call (env variable access)
  • 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://schemas.openxmlformats.org/spreadsheetml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/spreadsheetDrawing
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2009/9/main
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2009/9/ac
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2014/revision
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2015/revision2
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2016/revision3

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
a3c052949c59e302fd60b694ae85b5a2dfaae0ef21b8d707971f17a493dfab8c		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 39949 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin
f674740dfdf4fd4ded529c339160c8255cdd971c4a00180c9e3fc3f3e7b53799		 ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 404992 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin
63f71ea4dcec4be6df678369a2260d3535ebedcf62df4205f6cae8067d1682ec		 ole-package OOXML xl/embeddings/oleObject1.bin Ole10Native stream: Ole10Native 398854 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
vbaProject_00.bin
c690648434409dd98708bde219c60e47df14a03fc828101ffb85a90a0d375d4e		 vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 185344 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Packed.Logan-9738662-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s). Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
emf_00.emf
2189766dafc29210f2d28f558a75eb07e75c3da74ceb9a9e4c6706d735c1213a		 ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: xl/media/image1.emf 7272 bytes

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