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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec873c6e1471c6bc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

679.0 KB Created: 2020-06-22 10:41:03 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: c3e0735357d100be8a05de77a8816a6c SHA-1: 2e05ab5d50496c3a5ff8a679a33efa20bd1b4475 SHA-256: ec873c6e1471c6bcd75925b97f996ca6dda3fb22c58a8d4fe8cec4cee8425073
340 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open macro that utilizes Shell() and CreateObject() calls. This indicates an attempt to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document. The presence of 'wscript' references and the ClamAV detection as 'Xls.Packed.Logan-9738662-0' strongly suggest malicious intent. The extracted artifacts 'macros.bas' and 'ole10native_00.bin' are likely components of the malicious payload delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 8

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Xls.Packed.Logan-9738662-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Packed.Logan-9738662-0
  • Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT
    Reference to Windows Script Host
  • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
c002a21b25eb16c7cf03a813431739fc85b8749f5f8d813ff87921f514f0b8e4
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 22654 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
ole10native_00.bin
50bbdd9fbbbbfb058d8ce90c36c6dd737df05c51155ec25e62815722e58296e1
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD00356439/Ole10Native 439791 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.