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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6c4bb9f8911389b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 5422980805398d97e1cd0090f9996d57 SHA-1: 26af5000194b4df1e514f0d92ce4e1131b69d896 SHA-256: d6c4bb9f8911389b494214d46d3c89ee6950aad031b9a64b2b9ee6f95d12868f
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open event, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. The script utilizes `CreateObject` to interact with `Wscript.Shell` and `Scripting.FileSystemObject`, indicating an intent to execute commands and manipulate files. The script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from a list of obfuscated URLs, including the reconstructed URL `http://goyaluaa.vmeshaa.in/0v6kcny/CG/`. It also creates batch and VBScript files in `C:\ProgramData` for execution. The presence of `Wscript.Shell` and the execution of external files strongly suggest a downloader or droppper 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.