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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaee14238cd0072e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 257b47bb254a2964b4deb247d6cdecc9 SHA-1: 35b85e6d8391b462a68fd78751b7569ed7fa6c29 SHA-256: aaee14238cd0072e2f300e4d4a22fce1f597ef06e4edd4a5788051da5b70e42c
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The Workbook_Open macro is configured to execute a Windows Script Host command. This command reconstructs a PowerShell command string that downloads and executes a second-stage payload from multiple URLs. The script also creates two files, 'jledshf.bat' and 'sduoixo.vbs', in the 'C:\ProgramData' directory, likely for staging or execution of the payload. The presence of 'CreateObject' and 'Wscript.Shell' heuristics further supports the execution of scripts.

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.