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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b24b80b2205a2fdf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

143.5 KB Created: 2005-09-08 14:31:37 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-02-06
MD5: 54c9af8d91c72e84200c712f403ef8ed SHA-1: f222ba1dc6339b6475d091aa5178c32b2b4c855e SHA-256: b24b80b2205a2fdf238b418319883f3a9c7435b5c7ba01032b0cf8a151f9f77e
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a macro-enabled Excel file detected as malicious by ClamAV. The Auto_Open macro attempts to establish persistence by copying itself to the Excel startup folder as 'mypersonel.xls' and setting an Auto_Open macro. The Auto_Close macro attempts to convert the file to an older XLS format and delete the original XLSX.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Xls.Malware.ExcelSic-10004731-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Malware.ExcelSic-10004731-1
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close 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
0e027d7c75d49f79cc7aa4389acfebf7b55f41d2ad86258589318b07847f19ae
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1816 bytes