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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e293b26ba24822e7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

36.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-09-14
MD5: 0da6ba15012a5b7ce0a75eaabff0ae14 SHA-1: d1f50a55c5eae51bb67b5a331a1a603867064e91 SHA-256: e293b26ba24822e789bddaf252f66c667259be5ffa2fec48c5b7baa7802c5548
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The critical OLE_VBA_SHELL heuristic indicates the use of the Shell() function within a VBA macro. The Workbook_Open macro is designed to execute this function, which is likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of mshta.exe in the document text and the embedded URL further support this attack pattern.

Heuristics 7

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • Reference to mshta.exe high SC_STR_MSHTA
    Reference to mshta.exe
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.mediafire.com/file/6vip6utwodclo5k/1.htm/file

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
ae9554fe43789e0dbde44a7d85915523d0ca15b548a5a2d482282f726129b224		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2388 bytes

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