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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3360ac9bd4572c2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

134.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 258ef1805f89d79cbeb81c1947515535 SHA-1: f1d6c3aa823ec725c3ce780a61c3f98711791d3b SHA-256: c3360ac9bd4572c2a629896b7d84b0f3652ef1ae13c10f6e6ed79e9ddbb2d758
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample contains a Workbook_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell and RDS.DataSpace. The macro then proceeds to download a payload from a list of obfuscated URLs, including 'http://mytelefoniists.de/wp-content/bLM8fxV2MQ/jxqAorV8quhL23HMj/'. This behavior is characteristic of a downloader malware designed to fetch and execute further malicious content.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0
  • 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
d6216b1540c6d866e0cdc66ed3bfa2b79b477655c56d42a698e7b407351a97e3
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6560 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.