Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99809b15d6eaf11a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

1.39 MB Created: 2004-02-25 09:03:28
MD5: a648f51c1f2f1ea3a35332d02a76873a SHA-1: 71192d528b7a1f8c230355deb12ef428919145b7 SHA-256: 99809b15d6eaf11adede8a5f926fad09f52d130538543aae9aa17ce6996dc9bd
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains a Workbook_Open VBA macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. The heuristic 'VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens' specifically indicates that the macro is designed to execute commands, likely via the Shell function. The 'VBA Chr string obfuscation' heuristic suggests the macro's content is intentionally obscured. Given these indicators, the primary function is to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 4

  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • 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
95b391c3c4d6d974cbd48f8146b23cdb6ed1da69f84530bbd709d1ae1bd85a9f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 287565 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 22 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls.