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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46780e7bfb274c86…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

92.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000
MD5: eb8c5312d108021529e0ba32d5bdb9e6 SHA-1: 37753dcf345bcdc6a13d6251f4bdedcea0d39b16 SHA-256: 46780e7bfb274c863e8633411a47161fc1426dea0eee25c3774b27d6cc84cd79
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The file contains a Workbook_Open macro that executes obfuscated commands. These commands attempt to download and execute a VBScript payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://harperoproducts.com/Merchandise2/ARSf1LIcOauH1rDiH/'. The presence of CreateObject calls and the ClamAV detection signature 'Xls.Downloader.EmotetRed02221-9938910-0' strongly indicate a downloader functionality.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.EmotetRed02221-9938910-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.EmotetRed02221-9938910-0
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
de7bcbc45ff0a77d05d9af662bacc316e71be11a980e94f6673e556a5dd9d1bc
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 12808 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
vbaProject_00.bin
77fca0b3fac40aff1b626808048663589e5dfc62894d9d283c33bddec4afffd8
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 37888 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.