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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73b3f4748af020ba…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

134.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ddf45871359ea5baa4ec93a9b9000091 SHA-1: 53e29e7cecae683a1a25b9bfd32644871ede20f4 SHA-256: 73b3f4748af020ba17ccf9905618104ec88c8f433d8f0322168f059d92eb942b
302 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample contains a Workbook_Open VBA macro that utilizes CreateObject to execute a script. This script reconstructs a long string of URLs, likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of multiple suspicious URLs and the critical heuristic firing for URL-based dropping indicate a downloader functionality. The reconstructed URL string is: "http://tastedonline.com/cgi-bin/14Lg3P2Dt3rqBmaYZO/,http://store.anicyber.com/wp-content/0JIWtpJt681mQ/,https://dulichkhampha24.net/wp-content/rPThO/,http://dev.learncaraudio.com/wp-admin/ZIwWVcNiED4JYqnq/,http://jeffreylubin.igclout.com/wp-admin/gJ5oDbi/,http://karensgardentips.com/cgi-bin/w9i3PIVDOJDeF095ST/,http://stancewheels.com/wp-admin/ur031GNgTubBSslqN/,http://laohange.com/wp-content/brPqH/,http://139.99.89.211/wp-admin/VM1HRb3b0MGGdp/,http://onexone.elementor.cloud/cdrxhrt/632SFiWmT1Y/,https://lastregaristorante.com/wp-admin/vkXFRVu/,http://sellin.app/wp-admin/0W4AcWvFkHkV/"

Heuristics 8

  • URL reconstructed from VBA cell-staged base64 dropper (12 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.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0
  • 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 https://lastregaristorante.com/wp-admin/vkXFRVu/
    • http://sellin.app/wp-admin/0W4AcWvFkHkV/
    • https://dulichkhampha24.net/wp-content/rPThO/
    • http://dev.learncaraudio.com/wp-admin/ZIwWVcNiED4JYqnq/
    • http://tastedonline.com/cgi-bin/14Lg3P2Dt3rqBmaYZO/
    • http://store.anicyber.com/wp-content/0JIWtpJt681mQ/
    • http://jeffreylubin.igclout.com/wp-admin/gJ5oDbi/
    • http://karensgardentips.com/cgi-bin/w9i3PIVDOJDeF095ST/
    • http://stancewheels.com/wp-admin/ur031GNgTubBSslqN/
    • http://laohange.com/wp-content/brPqH/
    • http://139.99.89.211/wp-admin/VM1HRb3b0MGGdp/
    • http://onexone.elementor.cloud/cdrxhrt/632SFiWmT1Y/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
0682b1dabb01229c8492cae5e8f124b2428b3f7af0a3adfd56447b0856c75734		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6592 bytes

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