Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1 — Office (OLE) / .EXE malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e285c33c6f0f6bd1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .EXE

19.0 KB Created: 1997-10-09 16:14:18 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: eba317e3d1ac0400044619f6130ce8a6 SHA-1: 46e8d60be1f5b962c993759a041a77ca32e10b44 SHA-256: e285c33c6f0f6bd1c6751146217d60d9a21ba5d366f0a1714e0afbc5e72a3b0b
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1. Static analysis detected VBA macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. The presence of the Auto_Open macro strongly suggests the intent to immediately run the embedded malicious script.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • 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
2c6a42cb4f0b59a04d9fc0e5ff719fdf6d2e357757549708cedc1bf8a7bf18b3
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1908 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely