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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4de0633706313407…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

423.0 KB Created: 2009-08-31 09:03:10 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 8e0a264a4aaec0f06dd67132ec630b67 SHA-1: 103d652cb031e1fbabeff7ce083ff39a17b97af7 SHA-256: 4de0633706313407ea133b0c7d65ddf82f3b1222ae852dd4d837a047b4f11d69
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an Excel spreadsheet containing VBA macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening. ClamAV detections indicate this is a known malware variant. The macros are likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'Xls.Trojan.Escape-1' detection.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Ppt.Malware.Laroux-10036124-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Ppt.Malware.Laroux-10036124-0
  • 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
dc7064d775443ce095d0598c72b0d787d2153f42eea5eb41b533e822b9afda36
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2292 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Trojan.Escape-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely