MALICIOUS
160
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic
T1059.003 Windows Command Shell
The sample is a malicious PowerPoint file containing a VBA macro. The Auto_Close macro is configured to execute a command using the Shell() function, which is a critical finding. This indicates the macro is designed to launch an external process. No specific malware family is identifiable from the provided heuristics, and no external URLs or hashes were extracted.
Heuristics 4
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Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELLShell() call in VBA
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Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSEAuto_Close macro
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VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXECCompiled 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.
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VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROSDocument contains VBA macro code
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
macros.bas5bd3a1ead3a3811d4ab2f0061b335b7ee762b98e3673b900716567ac88a51c15 |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) | 114250 bytes |
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