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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a87042a584e52aa5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: cea1923ea05f21cacf3b43890c07eb53 SHA-1: 60e632ac2c569c64524141f6740345c8cc1c07cb SHA-256: a87042a584e52aa51e7a9e314de4c8f9890ef80b98ff57f4e15c12873937f97f
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious Excel file containing VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open macro designed to execute code. The script utilizes CreateObject to interact with Wscript.Shell and Scripting.FileSystemObject, indicating an intent to download and execute a second-stage payload. The reconstructed URL 'http://goyaluaa.vmesha.in/0v6kcnky/CG/' is a primary indicator of this malicious activity. The presence of multiple suspicious URLs and the execution of a macro via Workbook_Open strongly suggest a downloader or droppper functionality.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0
  • 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
527d0656a0c2c323955d068683ef8f7e20c035cda247a1e24383595c0eb3403b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 7821 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.