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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6e1ca46bbc2169a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

1.54 MB Created: 2009-05-07 07:21:11 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 63fe051a440f5f432cc1171683d13ca8 SHA-1: 854e78ae265ae30288eeaad239e31fee68d323e5 SHA-256: e6e1ca46bbc2169ad914adc4d31f27f02f021d0de8d759f2e02b5716c8c82c49
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is an Excel spreadsheet containing a Workbook_Open macro, indicating it is designed to execute malicious code upon opening. The document body contains what appears to be a salary or payroll report, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick users into enabling macros. No specific malware family could be identified, but the presence of macros points to a common delivery mechanism for various threats.

Heuristics 3

  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • 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
2a8a4609afb75ff3030d162aeb98b0b4b7b6050de6f2a874c6163629ccd04462		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10288 bytes

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