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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55600c567efec144…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .PPT

79.0 KB Created: 2020-09-22 19:08:10 Authoring application: Microsoft Office PowerPoint
MD5: 277b140d4469641a67534ecc7991fc86 SHA-1: 87b495fe58a0ee6f03959c77468461bdda677ec2 SHA-256: 55600c567efec144288b5f98668b87663c69f1b22a575bdec8587b1936b791af
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PowerPoint file containing VBA macros, specifically an Auto_Close macro that utilizes the Shell() function. This indicates the macro is designed to execute arbitrary commands upon closing the presentation. The presence of VBA macros and the use of Shell() are strong indicators of malicious intent, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. No specific family could be identified.

Heuristics 5

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.W2000m-9775797-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.W2000m-9775797-0
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close macro
  • 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.
  • 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
4fd41e094d1194c5e3b8a2ebc558e1be31fe02aff8a552c01b51dff875d4d413
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2398 bytes