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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1d75f78093dbc96…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

138.0 KB Created: 2022-02-09 09:48:26 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 4df3b1ede77f66c888076f928d358058 SHA-1: 5d231eccde043b2f2d799ff2eabab224928d3630 SHA-256: d1d75f78093dbc96b41a631cf81805ee855a3091bde73cc180b4ed688323814d
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open auto-execution routine, which is a common delivery mechanism for malware. The script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://midnighsilevercrafters.com/store/wBjNOUwc/B110N4cA6R3/' and 'https://redington.karmaat', and saves them as 'oue4hjld.vbs' and 'bhnasleil.bat' in the 'c:\programdata\' directory. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature as a downloader.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0
  • 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
7499ee53185ee291a5f51f09adb6806748122fbb845a2aeb8ba5ccbfa96bec0f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 52433 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.