Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3cfc02d38ccd289…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

41.6 KB Created: 2021-06-22 12:43:05 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300
MD5: b03b0a5114e3298bce0a35721f4580cc SHA-1: f411749e6968cfd29fffc405417ecbebaf2cce4c SHA-256: e3cfc02d38ccd289bd1cfc4fd8ff03c116e0891f532b131144d39b7f26bcb8f5
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an Office document containing VBA macros. Heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macros, references to PowerShell, and calls to cmd.exe and GetObject. The VBA code appears to be obfuscated, but its intent is to execute PowerShell commands, suggesting it acts as a downloader for further malicious activity.

Heuristics 4

  • PowerShell reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_PS
    PowerShell reference in VBA
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
3c0ba3adcf49a9a0097ab96fbd243b808e3bb99c5ffbb4bf090d723a6df82c82
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 35036 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
5fd7566cc7397e53785ad0d8bb335bcb4b3e44dca47bacfb7c465feb6abe133d
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 11264 bytes