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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abe76573dac105f9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

140.0 KB Created: 2020-11-06 09:03:43
MD5: 09a859df0e64a85218e48898d3985ea4 SHA-1: 4a3ec27cf317e925fec7b5580b3e175b67390865 SHA-256: abe76573dac105f97b52c83af54e4f0144311e82678643a3541f645e970dc159
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample contains VBA macros that execute a PowerShell command. This command is designed to download an executable file from the URL http://a22aweb.com/wp-content/csr/htgfderc.exe and then execute it. The presence of the PowerShell command and the embedded URL strongly indicate a downloader or droppper functionality.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Sagent-10035294-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Malware.Sagent-10035294-0
  • Reference to PowerShell high SC_STR_POWERSHELL
    Reference to PowerShell
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • Visible LOLBin command execution instruction high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Document contains instructions or visible command text involving Windows script/execution tools such as PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, or regsvr32
  • 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 http://a22aweb.com/wp-content/csr/htgfderc.exe

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
b23c88d2f14862a088ad3b6c7b6c25caf0ff680b69d8efe62f3ff4fd7bdb8073
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1310 bytes