Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9068f252c70c10e7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

41.6 KB Created: 2021-06-22 12:43:05 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300
MD5: dfe2208ef8b866220af373d383287774 SHA-1: 764ceeb5c423d73b885587ce47456a1867f2715f SHA-256: 9068f252c70c10e7a705b126ab2f99e27b60a67077d59a6cac737bbd8128b820
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an Office document containing VBA macros. Heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macros, references to PowerShell, and calls to GetObject and cmd.exe. The VBA code appears to be obfuscated, but its intent is likely to execute PowerShell commands to download and run a secondary payload. This suggests a downloader or droppper functionality.

Heuristics 4

  • PowerShell reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_PS
    PowerShell reference in VBA
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
6a08d94d356f0725feb6018ce0137b77bf62227787cd5e699cd1c0aa0bc828da
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 35036 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
cd8262aa4cd11b23d95f8c252a84ae2ac1ef389b1922b7c2138eb540e411d6e5
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 11264 bytes