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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e5d55ccc29922ef…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: d9f974b2abe56494f8612c872dad4cb7 SHA-1: cdb9cc890d1bd414d33379850dac9e0dbd4e77e7 SHA-256: 6e5d55ccc29922efd748b8bc151aaf32e85ff9f262537ad3688056c2237a43f5
302 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample contains VBA macros that are triggered by the Workbook_Open event. These macros utilize CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell and Scripting.FileSystemObject, indicating an intent to execute commands and manipulate files. The script attempts to download and execute payloads from multiple URLs, including 'http://goyaluat.vmesh.in/0v6kcny/CG/', and writes them to 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat' and 'c:\programdata\sduoixo.vbs'. This behavior strongly suggests a downloader or dropper functionality.

Heuristics 8

  • URL reconstructed from VBA cell-staged base64 dropper (11 URLs) critical OLE_VBA_CELL_DROPPER_URL
    VBA reads worksheet cells, strips junk substrings via Replace(), and base64/UTF-16 decodes the result into a PowerShell EncodedCommand payload. The download URL is never contiguous in the file bytes; it was recovered by removing the macro's Replace() junk tokens from the cell strings and decoding the staged base64.
  • 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.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://goyaluat.vmesh.in/0v6kcny/CG/
    • https://mars.srl/wp-admin/7Ffk6LLN2Xs2W/
    • http://franmulero.es/mbx/8c5RBJx6/
    • http://varafood.com/Ajax/cnM91G/
    • https://7jcat.com/wp-content/t/
    • http://blog.centralhome.h
    • http://zimrights.co.zw/oldsite/k0EoCWycU9tNo1d/
    • https://mudhands.com/error/BfH/
    • http://albatrospatagonia.com/phkcvt/t53ceSMDqgPQlq/
    • http://mapcommunications.co.zw/wp-admin/mdRRbSdU3aB7Xpx6z/
    • http://dushkin.net/img/bhQSTNicEMtNQxP/

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