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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa915194f8890550…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

100.0 KB Created: 1999-12-06 04:30:55 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: d01e750cbcaae83cc9351c6797630626 SHA-1: 1b13bd919098fccbf77ff251b159c4a1dc8ce17c SHA-256: aa915194f8890550d1859dec0cf03a27fd704772d181c1e60519e0b9af0296d9
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is an OLE Excel spreadsheet that contains VBA macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The document body contains technical specifications for a multimeter, which appears to be a lure to disguise the malicious macro content.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Macro.Laroux-5893719-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.Laroux-5893719-0
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • 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
37f2f173fa7749767f71b86dd3222465095970e258112ac07702497c43b29124
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 3424 bytes