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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 910ee5f1200462e1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

32.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-09-13
MD5: c5df1b57bc524e50d76aad501c9e338c SHA-1: 62eb4797605873794f7cd7cf93421c7bed98ca8f SHA-256: 910ee5f1200462e135a997383a328495e884a84b79fb0ddbb0852a8395721d8f
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic

The VBA macro contains a CreateObject call and references PowerShell, indicating it's designed to execute commands. The script reconstructs a PowerShell command that downloads and executes a VBScript from the URL 'http://ag.mnalbivra.net/admin/predictors.vbs', saving it as 'notepad.vbs' in the temp directory. This is a common downloader pattern.

Heuristics 3

  • Reference to PowerShell high SC_STR_POWERSHELL
    Reference to PowerShell
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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
e776137b3516f4935511f7418804b5f5b4b7ac880ea796a614fab03b4b32261c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1380 bytes