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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7ce7d6de1aa23c9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

65.5 KB Created: 2022-01-14 07:06:52 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-02-26
MD5: 741232f1e25b0a0e4f3ebe0b8c22d1b4 SHA-1: 3ea3db4f2efd925573dd9abc42326b7f84c7e5eb SHA-256: d7ce7d6de1aa23c9f54a11a84238ec07281745e4ba67ad1b548c71cc18158891
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious Excel file containing a VBA macro that is automatically executed upon opening (Auto_Open). The script utilizes `CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer")` to download and execute a payload from the URL `http://84.32.188.141/`. The macro also attempts to clean up the worksheet by deleting pictures and used cells.

Heuristics 6

  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_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
  • 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://84.32.188.141/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
5846c9971f21d4d74a99a4454f24fbad7f764f8885f8bdb6092c8ddb0055a84b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 974 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.