Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a88f969a1649de75…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

42.2 KB Created: 2021-06-22 12:43:05 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300
MD5: 570dc11b2e8605d83a0faee6bd7c2b06 SHA-1: 6febf8311839b532acca36dd22c498898de4960e SHA-256: a88f969a1649de757cd24a422e41adada2beab2fd08db7cfc473ac7494807499
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1218.011 System Binary Proxy Execution: Rundll32 T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

This Excel document contains VBA macros that are designed to execute.

Heuristics 6

  • PowerShell reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_PS
    PowerShell reference in VBA
  • VBA WMI Win32_Process launcher critical OLE_VBA_WMI_PROCESS_CREATE
    VBA macro builds or references a WMI moniker for Win32_Process and invokes .Create to start a command. This is a high-confidence macro execution chain that often hides the WMI class name through string concatenation or helper functions.
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
cbe0d2590f3e367b85855d0393eeee97569326df05e1da9de84a582e6c8b5548
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 35520 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
dfc6520bdecfbca210065caf598283456676ec75aa387c29300735d1d7645a64
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 11776 bytes