MALICIOUS
220
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 malicious VBA macro. The Auto_Close macro utilizes a character-shift decoder to execute a Shell command, which is a common technique for downloading and executing second-stage payloads. The embedded URL, although marked as benign, is suspicious in this context. The VBA p-code indicates auto-execution with Shell commands.
Heuristics 6
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Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELLShell() call in VBA
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VBA character-shift decoded Shell command critical OLE_VBA_ASC_CHR_SHIFT_SHELLVBA auto-exec macro stores an encoded command string, decodes it with a Mid/Asc/Chr character-shift loop, and passes the recovered text to Shell. This is a high-confidence command stager.
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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
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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://1230948%1230948%1230948%1230948@j.mp/dbgghasdnasdjasgdakgsdhv
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
macros.bas4cbf469b8807b00c47e2bb8e507435e4189f81aef29375ac2ed11fd9c880f3df |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) | 17092 bytes |
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