Xls.Trojan.Hidemod-1 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca2b9b0890579529…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

39.5 KB Created: 2004-09-13 01:56:56 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: c476d4e41c23e5043dad0b3037f24d7e SHA-1: b30f9a38f112168ac747c059ba846f819136090c SHA-256: ca2b9b0890579529b029d7f50ab3c74d84192b3acbdf148b95abcbb17ed27682
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Xls.Trojan.Hidemod-1 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Xls.Trojan.Hidemod-1. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro, which is commonly used to execute malicious code immediately upon opening the document. The Auto_Close macro also fired, suggesting potential cleanup or secondary actions. The presence of these macros strongly suggests an initial compromise vector.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Xls.Trojan.Hidemod-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Trojan.Hidemod-1
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close macro
  • 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
12e4b4f9cb277e476b0a6fd7c4b441d54e8418c35c602bda693544fb32c37975
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 7406 bytes