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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b799b1390e6c3c2f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

49.0 KB Created: 2021-04-13 13:37:17 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 2f7f25d05cdf8e60fa95a6b45d6f469d SHA-1: 52af52dc82bf8f21c6031d101a2c4405c6c2b72a SHA-256: b799b1390e6c3c2f837a65a05ac49adc2ac6fcebeb0bf036c99f2ed331344922
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The Workbook_Open VBA macro is designed to execute a PowerShell command. This command is constructed by concatenating strings and is intended to download a second-stage executable from 'http://18.209.1.250/22/RTL-845120054875.exe' and save it as 'C:\Users\Public\Documents\listupon.exe'. The macro also writes this command to a file named 'C:\Users\Public\apersone.czmd' before executing it via 'explorer.exe'. This indicates a downloader pattern.

Heuristics 5

  • Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXEC
    Reference to ShellExecute API
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • 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.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
bc1a845bfbc2720c51b363ec5908d716e3bb458f34fc657900d061789571e091
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1895 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).