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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 548a95874bd76148…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

196.0 KB Created: 2018-12-06 20:43:11 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: e700160268262e4b240c83c431f11299 SHA-1: fdea2e1e5f0904c186a53bd325550707f7aa2699 SHA-256: 548a95874bd76148ec652a03f114709880801c322700821f24349d1950bd94cb
340 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File

The Excel file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open macro that utilizes WScript.Shell to execute arbitrary commands. This indicates a macro-based attack designed to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of WScript.Shell and Shell() calls strongly suggests the execution of malicious code.

Heuristics 8

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • WScript.Shell usage critical OLE_VBA_WSCRIPT
    WScript.Shell usage
  • 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
62d0d214845e572b4c1c68bee716a6e648d6992ecd27818d0da2d98b47f5727b		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 24669 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 shell/COM execution token(s). Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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