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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48f033bc88c8fb56…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .EXE

46.5 KB Created: 1998-06-22 09:24:56 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 2914e3ed50c6e8c5187c8773f6f3b666 SHA-1: 1978684567064d9af7788081ac10c649a221199b SHA-256: 48f033bc88c8fb562d2c95bce71eb138e955c5be5f2bca26aaf1d73d15d7fd70
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1. It contains VBA macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. The presence of the Auto_Open macro suggests an attempt to immediately run the embedded malicious payload.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1
  • 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
f575cbf046290424f6ab58af42fd1e95d71a265dd018bc63e7498d8a4b5be021
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1896 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely