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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d564056378f00f68…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

570.5 KB First seen: 2022-11-23
MD5: 126f51d36f9fdae3bb810a08219b6f57 SHA-1: 86d478c0abca323869ed499db6609f1d30dbc54c SHA-256: d564056378f00f68174b94b0b8cee7da47873ca5787e2b2a001d66e71909285b
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical OLE_VBA_SHELL and OLE_VBA_OBFUSCATED_AUTOEXEC_LOADER heuristics indicate that the VBA macros are designed to execute arbitrary code. The Workbook_Open event is triggered, which is a common technique for auto-execution. The presence of an embedded URL suggests the macro is likely a downloader for a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • Obfuscated auto-exec VBA loader critical OLE_VBA_OBFUSCATED_AUTOEXEC_LOADER
    Auto-exec VBA reconstructs strings with a heavy custom decoder (numeric char-array, repeated hex-string decode, or junk-token Replace removal) and feeds them to a COM-instantiation or execution sink. This obfuscated-loader shape keeps CreateObject/Shell/URL indicators out of the macro source.
  • 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.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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 http://www.motobit.com/help/scptutl/sa298.htm
    • http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
    • https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/dc106e26-e5a0-4ca4-b4b1-a77a5c0d832a/creating-utf8-file-in-excel-macro?forum=isvvba�
    • https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/dc106e26-e5a0-4ca4-b4b1-a77a5c0d832a/creating-utf8-file-in-excel-macro?forum=isvvba

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
215bfcedeb6df629d8780205a0443f37a96037ea3516ffe8699be78d1b25faf5		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 625243 bytes

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