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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6f684b454aa68a8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .PPT

67.0 KB Created: 2022-06-20 21:46:45 Authoring application: Microsoft Office PowerPoint
MD5: d1b293c616438cd0ca4013520e050607 SHA-1: fcbaa09dca64414691ca76059d7fce219e625b68 SHA-256: a6f684b454aa68a840b0f040cf8b0ecf309cad92dd678830fcd05d9537b7cb37
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1218.005 System Binary Proxy Execution: Mshta

The presence of a high-severity Auto_Close VBA macro, coupled with a reference to mshta.exe, indicates that this PowerPoint file is designed to execute malicious code. The Auto_Close macro is configured to automatically run when the presentation is closed, likely initiating the download and execution of a second-stage payload from the embedded URL. The heuristic firings strongly suggest the use of mshta.exe for execution, which is a common technique for bypassing security controls.

Heuristics 5

  • Reference to mshta.exe high SC_STR_MSHTA
    Reference to mshta.exe
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close 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.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://bitbucket.org/!api/2.0/snippets/rikimartinplace/rEqkqo/2845b41c3f6fd6c93a6c6621299d3093a273567a/files/charlesfinal1

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
1d98165d2ce519f3d8c456fc9792f2177ad3818accc333b2e1c1cfea8eb73cfd		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1086 bytes

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