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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b21c7c1ac119a4b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

794.5 KB Created: 2002-10-18 06:42:59 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 84d9027bbfc3857fa94bf8cedd93eb7e SHA-1: dcf2761a9c1c17d26dd621f83ae8f63a06c7f339 SHA-256: 9b21c7c1ac119a4bc68327c0789caf11131e40e66095e521ca251d3a6fefe133
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet containing a Workbook_Open macro, which is a common technique for initiating malicious execution upon opening. Heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macro obfuscation and a CreateObject call, suggesting the macro attempts to download and execute a secondary payload. The document body content appears to be a legitimate French planning tool, which is likely a lure to trick users into opening the malicious spreadsheet.

Heuristics 5

  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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
c60bff1a20821e012cb43edc43269db804b85096ce779d176c5c82b07736186d
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 435416 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 16 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls. Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.