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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bd432d55037ffe6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .PPT

388.5 KB Created: 2006-08-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office PowerPoint
MD5: d2f0b5447b02ddc125755b95f1042cfa SHA-1: 39de76c8ddd336b4fc59a532bcc6aa1c2c583705 SHA-256: 9bd432d55037ffe62d2763a33bc1944be77cb4f31173ce5ea14f98c2dfa38665
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PowerPoint file containing a VBA macro named Auto_Open. This macro utilizes a Shell() call, indicating an attempt to execute external commands. The presence of VBA p-code auto-execution with execution tokens further supports this. The likely intent is to download and execute a second-stage payload, although the specific command or URL is not directly extractable from the provided evidence.

Heuristics 5

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_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
ed68e95aa565f31c90ab90cd572b5a5d5cf991f8d6b68d11b43a66a4a319fb22
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17084 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.