Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 940125bb50f8779a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

6.96 MB Created: 2007-02-05 14:36:47 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 47697580bea2df57332fe8d34a3791a7 SHA-1: b2de5cc31f682f2fc6b6e16e33a06273da80beee SHA-256: 940125bb50f8779a9f1632bf50c8209627ffabd93270197356ea6b84212b90f5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document with a Workbook_Open VBA macro, indicating it is designed to execute code automatically upon opening. The document body content suggests a financial or administrative report, which is a common lure for social engineering. The presence of a Workbook_Open macro strongly suggests the intent is to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 2

  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • 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
dcf17a9be8864ac3d04c6de0312b298bdab9e780ffde011cee8e8e43d9bf9d0f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18056 bytes