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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96475c257353f223…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

377.5 KB Created: 2020-11-24 22:52:41
MD5: 1e72f7f1c34cfb0e56f59773dc0701c8 SHA-1: 59f630a0dd149bed52393321c99b4182e22976bb SHA-256: 96475c257353f223dc03f5bdebf0620b1cfeb2617a62d71f294651e76caf623f
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is a macro-enabled Excel spreadsheet containing a PowerShell command. This command is designed to download an executable file from the URL 'http://sparepartiran.com/js/2Q/Wzdgpx2.exe' and then execute it. The presence of the PowerShell command and the embedded URL strongly indicate a downloader or droppper functionality.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Sagent-10035294-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Malware.Sagent-10035294-0
  • Reference to PowerShell high SC_STR_POWERSHELL
    Reference to PowerShell
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • Visible LOLBin command execution instruction high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Document contains instructions or visible command text involving Windows script/execution tools such as PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, or regsvr32
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://sparepartiran.com/js/2Q/Wzdgpx2.exe

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
abf922683439b7c8b220481b9ba3ad09425fc52f5a71cb406cb867dabb77836a
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1700 bytes