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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d28708d495f5054c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: bbdd118a518d22e75bc09482b69db1dc SHA-1: bcc8abcccbfe31b4259a77af3f6e48ff6e2cde05 SHA-256: d28708d495f5054c01a5e9ff0d70c1b03352c967bf2ae9a5bf2ef72f5eac97f6
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The Workbook_Open macro automatically executes upon opening the Excel file. It uses CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell and Scripting.FileSystemObject, indicating an intent to run external commands and manipulate files. The script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://goyaluaat.vmeshaa.in/0v6kcny/CG/7Ffk6LN2Y s2W/', and writes a batch file to 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat' and a VBScript to 'c:\programdata\sduoixo.vbs'. The presence of Wscript.Shell and the execution of external scripts strongly suggest a downloader or dropper functionality.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0
  • Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT
    Reference to Windows Script Host
  • 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
527d0656a0c2c323955d068683ef8f7e20c035cda247a1e24383595c0eb3403b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 7821 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.