Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7be84ff817d0741e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

2.23 MB Created: 2008-03-03 05:22:17 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: dd95f37f2e20fe769508e36952dcac44 SHA-1: 199c1dd0a72879633ef009733fd5087e7734235a SHA-256: 7be84ff817d0741e9a85e61d133294d115ff67c82e430bfc07ec71bdee124288
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Office document containing VBA macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening. The presence of a 3134-byte VBA macro suggests it is designed to perform actions such as downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The document body contains technical-sounding text related to network infrastructure changes, which could serve as a lure to encourage users to open the document and enable macros.

Heuristics 2

  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • 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
acc9bc3ffdb8934aa61e585333ad89b03a72d261919faa9e7ceddc39086fb048
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 3134 bytes