Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c68339b291ff835a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

41.6 KB Created: 2021-06-22 12:43:05 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300
MD5: f21cbd53a217229c1fa4a4e8c15ede2c SHA-1: b62b7643c1f5e3a618b63ea08791d39b8292541d SHA-256: c68339b291ff835a7001ff3a6124da2defefa539d1db6d8769d94b34d8be569a
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The OOXML document contains VBA macros that reference cmd.exe and PowerShell. The GetObject call and the presence of VBA macros suggest an attempt to execute arbitrary code. The VBA code includes a Base64 decoding function, indicating that it likely decodes and executes a malicious payload, possibly downloaded from a remote source.

Heuristics 4

  • PowerShell reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_PS
    PowerShell reference in VBA
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
9bbcbd3998430ff73d6d37ead3db7da75d7feb276d744dd02b8bf38251276a47
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 35036 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
22df675ac996080bdd601b73252336a963ff6e21c2487fdf00c102d0e6f14a49
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 11264 bytes