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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac0ccf59d64faf07…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

37.5 KB Created: 2021-05-07 09:16:05 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: abc73f6301b9f828dce46943b7111f29 SHA-1: fadb21a70ab5923cbe8e8deeb36af5e07efd0e87 SHA-256: ac0ccf59d64faf079e0d4e93ec994865214aefd0899f644da81f8e748e4ee153
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

The file is an Excel spreadsheet containing VBA macros. A high-confidence heuristic indicates the presence of a Workbook_Open macro, which is designed to execute automatically when the workbook is opened. This macro uses a CreateObject call, suggesting it attempts to launch a secondary payload or perform malicious actions. The specific actions are not detailed, but the auto-execution mechanism is clear.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
1295d4efbcacfeaaa5325160bb519536f80bcdeb9c2325f0edd252582228f011
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 4570 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.