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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9f4e65528b81d0c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: be846bb8cac3f12321fb7276a3dbc721 SHA-1: ab2476402b4be463158360a3c166923f858b2e8e SHA-256: b9f4e65528b81d0c32b6efe0568288037746343edacf65b6a2d0d2ee70160751
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

This Excel file contains VBA macros that execute upon opening, as indicated by the Workbook_Open heuristic. The script utilizes `CreateObject` to instantiate `Wscript.Shell` and `Scripting.FileSystemObject`. It then proceeds to write and execute a batch file (`c:\programdata\jledshf.bat`) and a VBScript (`c:\programdata\sduoixo.vbs`). The VBScript appears to be a downloader, attempting to fetch content from multiple URLs, including `http://goyaluaa.vmeshaa.in/0v6kcny/CG/7Ffk6LN2X s2W/`. The presence of `Wscript.Shell` and the execution of external scripts strongly suggest a downloader or initial access stage.

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.