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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1ab17c4c6f20730…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

134.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: d83ec3785ef227f70206cc8cfa4bbe82 SHA-1: f27f27c2f7dd4b7110c82b376fe091c77ffc605b SHA-256: e1ab17c4c6f2073064f8e37b67082d445ff91710ae9ed46fb324e500d7b8fabc
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample contains a Workbook_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell and RDS.DataSpace. The macro then attempts to execute a heavily obfuscated PowerShell command, which is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from one of the listed URLs. The presence of the Workbook_Open macro and the obfuscated PowerShell execution strongly indicate a downloader functionality.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0
  • 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
0682b1dabb01229c8492cae5e8f124b2428b3f7af0a3adfd56447b0856c75734		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6592 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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