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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50f81267312d2ee6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .PPT

82.5 KB Created: 2021-07-28 16:40:39 Authoring application: Microsoft Office PowerPoint
MD5: 84bf8928e67f5073047723334bcd8450 SHA-1: c2013c3522f62aff0a1969433777142a2a137aa2 SHA-256: 50f81267312d2ee6a0d11886c37d1c26fe3ee364621d2872cf1c78dcef963171
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample contains an Auto_Open VBA macro that is designed to execute a command. This command is constructed by concatenating strings to form 'cmd.exe rubishdata/Rmsh' and 'https://www.bitly.com/twquihdbsavdghsagd'. The macro appears to be downloading and executing a second-stage payload from the provided URL. The presence of cmd.exe and CreateProcess API references further supports this execution flow.

Heuristics 6

  • Reference to CreateProcess API high SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS
    Reference to CreateProcess API
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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
bae4865f00cd630f87f46e2e4e9b1848d1f4089fb89405e85a737eb70f764c7f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6050 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s). Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.