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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58c91abef5c61067…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: b49493452c73df1500b80112ddb7767a SHA-1: d7b586aa3b9d3576c92d8e18abe85305af34257b SHA-256: 58c91abef5c610675f369679d0c91ed0a03c54209bdfe8ed96e3bc2a8efe084c
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample contains a Workbook_Open VBA macro that leverages Wscript.Shell to execute commands. The script attempts to create and execute a batch file ('c:\programdata\jledshf.bat') and a VBScript ('c:\programdata\sduoixo.vbs'). The VBA code also reconstructs a complex command string containing multiple URLs, which are likely used to download and execute further stages of the malware. The presence of Wscript.Shell and the execution of external scripts strongly indicate a downloader or initial access pattern.

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.