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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4c8ea0f9e591986…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .BIN

2.16 MB
MD5: 2effe2847881ed61c13a00419afd292b SHA-1: 12f565d99b40c96fcd1c95ab90eaca53d37aebdb SHA-256: e4c8ea0f9e5919869dde4c00532ee23839ee4a90c88e0b7def51e85819a920b4
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

The sample is an Office OLE file with a high-confidence detection for VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open macro that uses CreateObject. This indicates an automated execution path upon opening the document. The presence of VBA Chr string obfuscation and auto-execution with execution tokens further supports this. While no specific URLs or network indicators were extracted, the macro's structure strongly suggests it's a downloader for a second-stage payload. The lack of explicit network IOCs or clear persistence mechanisms in the extracted data prevents higher confidence in family attribution.

Heuristics 5

  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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
7c03adb704de98fba93aa5577ab394ece2f06b413ed9cc3bacd5cdf33a27fb92
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1167106 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 38 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls. Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.