MALICIOUS
160
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.002 Malicious File
The sample is a PowerPoint file containing a VBA macro. The critical heuristic firing indicates a Shell() call within the VBA code, and the high heuristic firing points to an Auto_Close macro. This suggests the macro is designed to automatically execute a command when the presentation is closed, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. No specific family could be identified, and no IOCs were directly extracted from the provided evidence.
Heuristics 4
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Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELLShell() call in VBA
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Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSEAuto_Close macro
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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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VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROSDocument contains VBA macro code
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
macros.bas302e4221d1bff9d9a7122ab2f7ca35fb53879719799a82024b9bfbda3273f676 |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) | 33714 bytes |
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