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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1878d83c6185944…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

145.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 79b808ddb35e11c0d3c283d217f3bbea SHA-1: 8a365dca641f58a7f4ea68076f4e49a11a5cecf3 SHA-256: e1878d83c6185944484149b105c6a10dd9eab222ffddc37dc4bc394a505d5474
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is a macro-enabled Excel file that triggers a Workbook_Open event. This event executes a series of commands using Windows Script Host (wscript.exe) and the command shell. The script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://reumatiSclinic.com/-/scCnm3mbJRpsBKBbrC/' and 'https://shodmanjar.com/wp-admin/xjEmK4Pd3N/'. The presence of 'CreateObject' and 'Scripting.FileSystemObject' further indicates malicious intent to manipulate the file system and execute arbitrary code. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0' strongly suggests a known malware family, but specific attribution is not possible from the provided data.

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.