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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e21010888e225acd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

329.8 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 15.0300
MD5: 8ade3b8c742363c77c3ed28e604f1fe8 SHA-1: c2bec21e2069d78792b15ac6e14f1ad1c7488870 SHA-256: e21010888e225acdde63d87ce30b68ab61c12ee91400820d3c151e0f0daacd1a
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an OOXML document containing VBA macros, indicated by the 'OOXML_VBA' heuristic. The presence of 'CreateObject' and 'CallByName' calls suggests the macros are designed to execute code. While no specific URLs or commands were extracted, the general pattern points to a macro-based downloader. No document body text was available for further context.

Heuristics 4

  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • CallByName call high OLE_VBA_CALLBYNAME
    CallByName call
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
9613ba47267e12f62a5761a9ba19038f48d1cfeee53520b91a3918b3f5666645
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 3736 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
b4bbc8bf42cabc7c0db1b832e032258ebf370defc20cbd8c06bc6b1d6ad17c76
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 403456 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
emf_00.emf
68876e56aa79c46bef012c7f76b67be7f60ac1ae3541e4de92a5eb1f6523aca9
ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: xl/media/image3.emf 1272 bytes
emf_01.emf
6ce7fc06cd305466b7862b787314f6986f6ae7ddc903fbea131a8fb7675dd369
ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: xl/media/image4.emf 1424316 bytes
emf_02.emf
e7d990a3ec732d717878e5ee2e7fc5e0e00d24882ee2006addf6cd81c24276b8
ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: xl/media/image2.emf 2384 bytes
emf_03.emf
fe2168f37ae91066015f8990a46acd703eb62227625dfa41455dcd59affd2fab
ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: xl/media/image1.emf 2296 bytes