MALICIOUS
160
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic
T1059.001 PowerShell
The file is a PowerPoint presentation containing VBA macros. A critical heuristic firing indicates the use of the Shell() function within a VBA macro, specifically within an Auto_Close macro named 'muthal'. This suggests the macro is designed to execute arbitrary commands upon closing the presentation. No specific malware family could be identified, and no external URLs or hashes were extracted.
Heuristics 4
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Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELLShell() call in VBA
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Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSEAuto_Close macro
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VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXECCompiled 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.
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VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROSDocument contains VBA macro code
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
macros.bas40626da67103eaaa4353adbd364278eea2aaade62ea0f516f57c1202c23cc50d |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) | 134 bytes |
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