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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d8dfae84bf25752…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

111.6 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000
MD5: 4531dfb74ac511339bc8a891b233c1b6 SHA-1: e10bd72def34a6d9f35bd5829e444e0b9257193d SHA-256: 7d8dfae84bf25752747ad5f11c27e9cb58afb3cdfd0799c57ec82e4ce09121cc
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open macro and CreateObject calls, indicate malicious intent. The document body contains obfuscated commands that appear to construct and execute a batch file (jledshf.bat) and a VBScript (sduoixo.vbs) from the ProgramData directory. The VBA script itself contains logic for calculating sales figures but also includes a Workbook_Open subroutine that appears to be involved in further execution or payload delivery, though it is truncated. The reconstructed URLs suggest a pattern of downloading and executing further stages.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0
  • 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
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One 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.
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
527d0656a0c2c323955d068683ef8f7e20c035cda247a1e24383595c0eb3403b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 7821 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
vbaProject_00.bin
1154dda23a516221eef12e532a096c3d84eb25511d30eaa3dc37fa69d60efc16
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 37888 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.