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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed002288cba8788c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

46.5 KB
MD5: b8c787944bca15df06135e7376863966 SHA-1: ef90e24c8bb1c58c3e90f94e853e63bb5aa9d39c SHA-256: ed002288cba8788c559ab31cb270fb9d32167fcc79de7e0ac300553467c402b9
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The VBA macro in macros.bas is triggered by the Workbook_Open event. It writes the content of UserForm1.TextBox1.Text to a file named 'webzoon.js' and then executes it using wscript. This indicates the macro's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload. The heuristics confirm the presence of VBA macros, a Shell() call, and auto-execution via Workbook_Open, all pointing to a malicious downloader.

Heuristics 7

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
dcda6a12214135504b038a18748b3dc9973c4a4d2d7faac789a410c6271e0dc9
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1430 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.