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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b84fadcb251a016b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: cfcef5a366900e245a6a93ae37380ed2 SHA-1: 6171feac46802d5c0a24685e84dcdb872f1892ca SHA-256: b84fadcb251a016bed24c55cc2f8242af3fcdb0a9843a31d455f0f2509d6e579
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open macro, which is designed to execute automatically when the file is opened. The macro utilizes 'CreateObject' to instantiate 'Wscript.Shell' and 'Scripting.FileSystemObject', indicating an intent to run external commands or scripts. The reconstructed command line arguments within the VBA script, such as 'hell -e', and the presence of paths like 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat' and 'c:\programdata\sduoixo.vbs', suggest the macro is responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The script also attempts to download from multiple URLs, including 'http://goyaluaat.vmeshaa.in/0v6kcnky/CG/', which is a high-priority IOC.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0
  • Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT
    Reference to Windows Script Host
  • 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
527d0656a0c2c323955d068683ef8f7e20c035cda247a1e24383595c0eb3403b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 7821 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.