Malicious Office (OLE) / .XLS — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f838332f25e237c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

134.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: be62b6cc8fa37006f47a90404491c104 SHA-1: 3184bf9a9af103a1e7eac736a5aa9fc3987f8530 SHA-256: 8f838332f25e237c25aa8613bbf11c5aba29e6c6ff6a93aebc9e5d3b41f508bc
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains VBA macros that leverage Wscript.Shell and CreateObject to download payloads from multiple URLs. The reconstructed URL 'http://mytelefoniists.de/wp-content/bL M8fxV2M/' is a primary indicator of this malicious activity. The presence of Workbook_Open and auto-execution heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to immediately execute the downloaded payload upon opening the document.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0
  • Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT
    Reference to Windows Script Host
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled 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.
  • 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 macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
d6216b1540c6d866e0cdc66ed3bfa2b79b477655c56d42a698e7b407351a97e3
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6560 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.