Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d62d11cd36d79d39…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

41.5 KB Created: 2021-06-22 12:43:05 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300
MD5: 4a79b44a31b6054f7e384e5a03de501b SHA-1: abb922825f2d3d4f3df4b01ae2c0496c07f2b987 SHA-256: d62d11cd36d79d39ca318e60431ea243f42618cf0434deee39c3ef5e023d51b4
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This Office document contains VBA macros that reference cmd.exe and PowerShell. The GetObject call and the critical OLE_VBA_PS heuristic suggest that the VBA code is designed to execute a PowerShell command. This is a common technique for downloading and executing further malicious content.

Heuristics 4

  • PowerShell reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_PS
    PowerShell reference in VBA
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
891858adea8f1d165ac83114cd2200cf3d9f649e822e64c43712be293deb41b5
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 34430 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
b6a6e2f8c7f46dc7ebdb8e645e2a55557a25ff83736136ddafa501f234122334
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 11264 bytes