Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 575cec8019b8f8dc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

295.5 KB Created: 2010-01-02 03:27:02 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: b7cfbd6b37ee1168662415703abb0fa2 SHA-1: 8dd56eef7c113a14db1c46ec810b456518db7cc3 SHA-256: 575cec8019b8f8dc4aab5581c48850d416b4f6a661cd06d62d1392e77a0ee31b
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document containing an Auto_Open VBA macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening. The ClamAV heuristic firings, 'Ppt.Malware.Laroux-10036124-0' and 'Xls.Trojan.Escape-1', strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body presents what appears to be inventory or financial data, likely intended to trick the user into enabling macros.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Ppt.Malware.Laroux-10036124-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Ppt.Malware.Laroux-10036124-0
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • 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
fb2929454da53a7c274256eb0b38ca9476f9f1c61d52f3b7e15bf6ac20b85c3e
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2073 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Trojan.Escape-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely