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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b847dec9a7fce034…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .PPT

99.0 KB Created: 2020-11-25 12:27:07 Authoring application: Microsoft Office PowerPoint
MD5: e102a00326529e03cd6845187d05a25a SHA-1: b510f0cd3259c989a5f7a366407688f3c0cd3128 SHA-256: b847dec9a7fce034cba6268753825b86a3538a375c0fac648305abd2144bbf6f
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PowerPoint file containing VBA macros. Critical heuristics indicate the use of the Shell() function, with evidence of character-shift decoding to obfuscate the command. The Auto_Close macro is present, suggesting execution upon closing the presentation. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Malware.Valyria-10008087-0' further confirms its malicious nature. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging VBA to execute arbitrary commands, likely for downloading and running further malicious content.

Heuristics 6

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • VBA character-shift decoded Shell command critical OLE_VBA_ASC_CHR_SHIFT_SHELL
    VBA auto-exec macro stores an encoded command string, decodes it with a Mid/Asc/Chr character-shift loop, and passes the recovered text to Shell. This is a high-confidence command stager.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10008087-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10008087-0
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
ce5541b4b105b5b2b6d59858e55900459210a497462224a00bd427db65bb5dd7
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 4459 bytes