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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0135e7183050d11…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

140.0 KB Created: 2020-11-09 06:19:52
MD5: 178539c4d337e864a48194c03fbb8639 SHA-1: d0067943c23650c0fe4241b98c5e8121767be8c1 SHA-256: f0135e7183050d119c2fdc82d6b3fe712a169ba0b74b6d689064e480214a33f3
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains VBA macros that execute a PowerShell command. This command is designed to download an executable file from the URL 'http://specialtyaltruistic.com/ab/esuerde.exe' and then execute it. The presence of the PowerShell command and the embedded URL strongly indicate a downloader or droppper functionality.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Sagent-10035294-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Malware.Sagent-10035294-0
  • Reference to PowerShell high SC_STR_POWERSHELL
    Reference to PowerShell
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • Visible LOLBin command execution instruction high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Document contains instructions or visible command text involving Windows script/execution tools such as PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, or regsvr32
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://specialtyaltruistic.com/ab/esuerde.exe

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
837f64d19ba9f708db03d695346ac1cf740ec009d005656ad94a133ccb458f2f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1310 bytes