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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fabedab03fa4dd4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

31.5 KB Created: 2010-05-27 12:55:07 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: a5e2037275370776b1af98584c700cd5 SHA-1: 08846c20bcb05b36c02ae131d8ad543c71305f38 SHA-256: 3fabedab03fa4dd4ca4b100c9d09d26462f4f6e2babec187fca268d9e95de89e
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detections for 'Ppt.Malware.Laroux-10036124-0' and 'Xls.Trojan.Escape-1' strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a high-severity 'Auto_Open' VBA macro confirms that the malware is designed to execute automatically upon opening the spreadsheet, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The document body content is generic and does not provide further clues about the specific lure.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Ppt.Malware.Laroux-10036124-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Ppt.Malware.Laroux-10036124-0
  • 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.
  • 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
fb2929454da53a7c274256eb0b38ca9476f9f1c61d52f3b7e15bf6ac20b85c3e
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2073 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Trojan.Escape-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely