Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ef1c111602b2c11…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

25.5 KB Created: 2018-05-16 02:46:30 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2019-04-18
MD5: 04d84566b3cca950d7f734c816b0f4fd SHA-1: a3203cf1c329fadc29425bd049307a7f396b4c02 SHA-256: 7ef1c111602b2c11435ad44225b785bcef89c1c12946cf899aae0e73511487a8
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer T1218.007 Client Execution: Bitsadmin

The sample is an Excel document with a high-confidence heuristic firing for macro usage and a lure to enable content. It also references Windows Script Host and bitsadmin, indicating a likely download and execution chain. The embedded URL `http://www.mva.by/tags/scan_ctm_req.exe` is likely the second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT
    Reference to Windows Script Host
  • Reference to bitsadmin (download) high SC_STR_BITSADMIN
    Reference to bitsadmin (download)
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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://www.mva.by/tags/scan_ctm_req.exe In document text (OLE body)