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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd5e40b13bc192e3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

49.0 KB Created: 2021-04-13 13:37:17 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: a6c6324b80f1377dd4baa2fe543bd109 SHA-1: d18af435524f978dffb7a2b036af9d237ce17210 SHA-256: cd5e40b13bc192e317292cd6975970435cbc8859ed645f82571f3976513951bf
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The Workbook_Open macro is designed to execute a PowerShell command. This command constructs a URL to download a second-stage executable from 'http://3.120.146.69/bg/40652000016.exe' and saves it as 'C:\Users\Public\Documents\deepwall.exe'. The macro also attempts to create a file 'C:\Users\Public\dssdd.cm' which contains the PowerShell command. The use of ShellExecuteW and the Workbook_Open auto-execution strongly indicate malicious intent.

Heuristics 5

  • Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXEC
    Reference to ShellExecute API
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • 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.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
6dbb2e7d9b0ce0a9878b4c793d7d36c324e3965b4a7c1773ef77bbb4a107ad9b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1848 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).