Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd0f3b0d281f2bd2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

41.6 KB Created: 2021-06-22 12:43:05 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300
MD5: a1d90eb79127dc1ffbe491327271aa05 SHA-1: 5106291231859b0f0f8f7e72d05bfbd2e54513fb SHA-256: dd0f3b0d281f2bd2fa288449893bb37dc1add2818b0f94943b3eece619cb4a90
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The OOXML file contains VBA macros that reference cmd.exe and PowerShell. The GetObject call and the presence of a VBA project indicate macro execution is intended. The script's Decode64 function suggests it may be deobfuscating or decoding a payload, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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
c10b47743a96d5030d6cc3c65eafed01ac650aa2d4a1d3b8d3a10085f61dcc86
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 35036 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
8cc7909a49a7255e4f3523115c98d1aa9856b309b12bacf1a21e416c3f7cf79e
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 11264 bytes