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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5a1b82786643799…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

134.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 362f6ca087eab14d7213d10700e97ccb SHA-1: f86586a656eb2e19f21623b25c15eaf121b76b9d SHA-256: a5a1b82786643799fc81b4a2919ca781dc266cf9d586bd2c560889b23d4189c4
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The VBA macros contain obfuscated strings that, when decoded, reveal multiple URLs. The presence of 'Wscript.Shell' and 'CreateObject' calls, along with the 'SC_STR_WSCRIPT' heuristic, indicates the script is designed to execute commands via Windows Script Host. The primary function appears to be downloading and executing a second-stage payload from one of the provided URLs.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0
  • 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
d6216b1540c6d866e0cdc66ed3bfa2b79b477655c56d42a698e7b407351a97e3
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6560 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.