Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · a0ee29ba6c977166

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

680.0 KB Created: 2020-06-22 10:41:03 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: 47e9ddf053a254424150c810abb7e6fd SHA-1: 086e3451383aa9a2aa0e98915c8d1ab97af6ec0c SHA-256: a0ee29ba6c977166e037c10569764a610db1bbe1728e6c277eafebfb96a7f325

340 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is an Excel file containing a Workbook_Open VBA macro. This macro utilizes a Shell() call and CreateObject, indicating it is designed to execute external code. The presence of a high-entropy carved artifact and ClamAV detection as 'Xls.Packed.Logan-9738662-0' further supports its malicious nature. The macro likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, as suggested by the extracted artifacts.

Heuristics 8

Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL

Shell() call in VBA
ClamAV: Xls.Packed.Logan-9738662-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Packed.Logan-9738662-0
Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT

Reference to Windows Script Host
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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `c002a21b25eb16c7cf03a813431739fc85b8749f5f8d813ff87921f514f0b8e4`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	22654 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
`ole10native_00.bin` `50bbdd9fbbbbfb058d8ce90c36c6dd737df05c51155ec25e62815722e58296e1`	ole-package	OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD00356439/Ole10Native	439791 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.

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