Malicious Office (OOXML) / .XLSX — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfee90218720f314…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

15.9 KB Created: 2021-05-06 09:43:15 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 15.0300
MD5: 11e9376ee19889ee5c08e816b1d3b231 SHA-1: d22b56bedc58de7da73d647a5f3048b9cabc17d7 SHA-256: cfee90218720f31491495dd353027017808fb3b9524d6c86ddfd016a372f627c
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is an Excel macro-enabled document containing a Workbook_Open macro, indicating it's designed to execute malicious code automatically when the document is opened. The presence of CreateObject calls further suggests the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. No specific family could be identified.

Heuristics 4

  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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 project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
ecb30d8259e5b3c3e6cf08c8b9dfa7e9793ce97d22f2f957a09710e1df896d3f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 4646 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
vbaProject_00.bin
99f34b872b2c63435dfedd164538bc71338a877488dd627304a78bf0f4a0f440
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 21504 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.