Malicious Office (OOXML) / .XLSM — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75b58d1e780fe8a5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSM

431.1 KB Created: 2021-08-19 14:03:52 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 15.0300 First seen: 2022-04-18
MD5: b447b6b9e437394236a1a2ba7b6778b9 SHA-1: cd92e2712493bc551b6935cb733d310ab02f4668 SHA-256: 75b58d1e780fe8a57360c83d8e51b2a0c5bc36b29c2f300527f8be498e38016b
342 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is an XLSM file containing a Workbook_Open VBA macro. This macro executes a command using cmd.exe to download a batch script from the URL http://20.40.97.94/itl/loader/uploads/TNL0612710.bat using certutil and then executes the downloaded file. This indicates a downloader or dropper functionality.

Heuristics 8

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • LOLBin reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_LOLBIN
    LOLBin reference in VBA
  • ClamAV: Xls.Dropper.EPPlus-9802867-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Dropper.EPPlus-9802867-2
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • 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://20.40.97.94/itl/loader/uploads/TNL0612710.bat

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
1472dfb479ef8f906ad6737a855da2276bb2d099d587a90836e5ab9089fcb1ad
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 1107 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
50cbd7fe43ee1a82a19d5debb6b5e212413160e0f4f41d44242fce7af22c6254
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 5632 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Dropper.EPPlus-9802867-2
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely