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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56a177f0dd81025b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 7b9b2d96472a4d2c45aa78f2163cf7ea SHA-1: 70c315cceabc09a45ca9b908ff00fc15d30babd4 SHA-256: 56a177f0dd81025ba8e76e2047dfec2235a27403604479bbf7919dc49bfc74df
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open macro that uses CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell and Scripting.FileSystemObject. The script attempts to execute a batch file located at 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat' and a VBScript at 'c:\programdata\sduoixo.vbs'. The VBScript appears to be a downloader, reconstructing a complex URL string from concatenated parts: 'http://goyaluaat.vmeshaa.in/0v6kcnky/CG/ ,https://mars.srl/wp-admin/7Ffk6LN2Xw2W/,http://franmulero.es/mbx/8c5RBGJx6/,http://varafood.com/Ajax/cnM91G/,https://7jjcat.com/wp-content/t/,http://blog.centralhome.com/mbx/8c5RBGJx6/'. This indicates a multi-stage attack where the initial Excel file serves as a dropper for further malicious activity.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0
  • 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
527d0656a0c2c323955d068683ef8f7e20c035cda247a1e24383595c0eb3403b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 7821 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.