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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e48964f316f520c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

111.6 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000
MD5: a5dda40ab22e387ba192341b57f25c55 SHA-1: 917178a7122b4c55a3e9ebb82d3140a8d80c47ce SHA-256: 8e48964f316f520cab0fdedcbe5c644328613517383cb0c90588527fd9cde170
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is a macro-enabled Excel file containing a Workbook_Open macro that executes obfuscated commands. These commands attempt to create and run a batch file named 'jledshf.bat' and a VBScript named 'sduoixo.vbs' from the 'C:\ProgramData' directory. The VBScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload from one of the provided URLs. The presence of the Workbook_Open macro and the execution of external scripts strongly indicate a malicious intent for initial payload delivery.

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
aee35d444a75c3b8aa0a06f417cf47c3add4ef6c2d74945abd6f105dc2d32e52
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.