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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67ed290426584757…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

16.0 KB Created: 2009-12-17 10:54:30 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 86b9dee1d8270072a204af998faeedb6 SHA-1: 71c1eb47c01556d8f30cc7fa713076146cf1c592 SHA-256: 67ed290426584757c98b9a1f9c17e4355600230b7915d6247a9b9f46796b752b
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

The sample is an Excel file containing a VBA macro that executes automatically upon opening (auto_open). The script attempts to copy itself to the Excel startup directory as 'StartUp.xls', indicating a persistence mechanism. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Macro.Laroux-5893719-0' further supports its malicious nature.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Macro.Laroux-5893719-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.Laroux-5893719-0
  • 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
79b21a7c777209cbed010937c211fa50ce8f1a7a563e8469017a43761e814fcd
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1606 bytes