Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · 45ca61cfe7ecb2fd

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: 70ca5f5d7b6ee448d01247d86d4e817c SHA-1: b1a8c1732eebecb2e7643f36b5a3968e0fd4ef3b SHA-256: 45ca61cfe7ecb2fda14bab514c76930feaf46df5b3c503567d4baa14871bc4b6

280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1037.004 Environment Variables

The sample contains VBA macros that execute upon opening the workbook, indicated by the Workbook_Open heuristic. The script attempts to create a Windows Script Host object and execute a batch file located at 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat'. It also attempts to create and execute a VBScript file at 'c:\programdata\sduoixo.vbs'. The reconstructed URL 'http://goyaluaa.vmeshaa.in/0v6kcny/CG/' is likely used to download additional payloads. The presence of these elements strongly suggests a malicious intent to download and execute further stages of malware.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0
Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT

Reference to Windows Script Host
Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN

Workbook_Open macro
CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ

CreateObject call
VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC

Compiled 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.
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 macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS

Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `527d0656a0c2c323955d068683ef8f7e20c035cda247a1e24383595c0eb3403b`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	7821 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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