Xls.Downloader.Valyria-10008445-0 — Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a7daa6f01efcbc7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

100.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-09-14
MD5: 100a2750f01f084234fbd828f1f608fc SHA-1: e5c947d03ad2a7a08500275b2107d91f13295066 SHA-256: 4a7daa6f01efcbc7e6480e26f2f99092eb7c059929bc84debd13a7962d0a2a25
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Xls.Downloader.Valyria-10008445-0 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The Workbook_Open macro in this XLS file is designed to execute a command that leverages PowerShell to download a second-stage executable named 'boat.exe' from 'https://transfer.sh/get/gj04sqKk7O/boat.exe' and save it as 'kzcnu.exe' in the user's public directory. The macro then executes the downloaded file, indicating a downloader functionality.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.Valyria-10008445-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.Valyria-10008445-0
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • 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.
  • 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
f5910a9ce53e0b41215f5e1e1e5f98542471392a6cbd22bd014d8204b42c2ef8
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1228 bytes