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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da1a75506f3888b7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .PPT

11.5 KB Created: 2020-04-13 16:04:54 Authoring application: Microsoft Office PowerPoint
MD5: 7f26a9a90cc3e9ced881acd918e6f3ab SHA-1: d421cf5bcc5c43fb76cfb869040a06227eb7fb5e SHA-256: da1a75506f3888b77e4c90334ff19cac255ed55d6b1fdadb4b285536f8c57d34
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The file is a PowerPoint presentation containing VBA macros. A critical heuristic firing indicates the use of the Shell() function within a VBA macro, specifically within an Auto_Close procedure. This suggests the macro is designed to execute arbitrary commands upon closing the presentation, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. No specific family could be identified, and no external IOCs were extracted.

Heuristics 4

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close macro
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
d97656063037173d857c88804b3005476a96ad98febc317a99ce9f7f53591631
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 167 bytes