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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e46f10930f2366da…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .PPT

71.0 KB Created: 2022-02-02 16:04:10 Authoring application: Microsoft Office PowerPoint
MD5: b9843f546de677071929da378d112a6b SHA-1: 7bf2493cfd93a543e9c7617f5353860a68bcf066 SHA-256: e46f10930f2366da7a8c89aa5c8be3b7e0f8ccb6a0f101241e666cb486d37e1f
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical OLE_VBA_SHELL heuristic indicates the presence of a Shell() call within the VBA macros. The Auto_Open macro, identified by OLE_VBA_AUTO, is designed to execute automatically upon opening the document. The script reconstructs the string "https://www.bitly.com/ehwuioqhdnkjaswqueiljka" and passes it to the Shell() function, indicating it likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload from this URL.

Heuristics 5

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_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.
  • 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
552c3d7813adb25814d4b117d0427422f6bce663135780efadd78b3e12db1c5a
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1482 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.