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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ab2c2f188be206e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

40.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 6845dddb253d9280dc5abbbf0906931c SHA-1: 49032dcebe54987093641820ffed6f6c03872256 SHA-256: 7ab2c2f188be206e239d40bf8a124267814ecc3949deec81ffad5cf9d2617114
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The presence of VBA macros and a high-severity heuristic firing for GetObject indicate that this XLS file is designed to execute malicious code. The macros are likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, a common technique for initial access.

Heuristics 2

  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
2cb308641cffe2b4fabff6d6708860d8ddb1c9109d43ebbc5a48a3891a489e9f		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1835 bytes

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