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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c1f4e81ddd2f5fb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: b195e584cb3b1dd8dd4d3560fe5a17fd SHA-1: b161fc4f591882bb934df72dbce373c1093108f6 SHA-256: 4c1f4e81ddd2f5fb99a64ee99db6ec8a4a279db75e8353ba02ab35b67d235c38
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is a macro-enabled Excel file that leverages Wscript.Shell to execute commands. The Workbook_Open macro is triggered upon opening, which then uses CreateObject to instantiate Scripting.FileSystemObject and Wscript.Shell. It proceeds to execute a batch file located at 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat' and a VBScript at 'c:\programdata\sduoixo.vbs'. The VBScript appears to be responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload from a list of hardcoded URLs, including 'http://goyaluaa.vmeshaa.in/0v6kcnky/CG/'. The presence of Wscript.Shell references and the auto-execution of macros strongly indicate a malicious intent to download and run further 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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.