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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0d02981b4062824…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .PPT

75.5 KB Created: 2006-08-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office PowerPoint
MD5: b006840cd199cdc0f6f1b03ee369a4c0 SHA-1: 3cd5ec05855848d8f1beb139fea06597a04bb4fc SHA-256: f0d02981b40628246395794a3d66b0165191b01395496cf1b2ffca2cdce69fe4
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PowerPoint file containing VBA macros. A critical heuristic firing indicates the use of the Shell() function within a VBA macro, specifically within an Auto_Close routine. This suggests the macro is designed to execute an arbitrary command upon closing the presentation, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. No specific family could be identified, and no external IOCs were extracted.

Heuristics 4

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close macro
  • 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.
  • 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
c5f72465bcdd30a4cf45694b188046b633f0373cc00ec464560cc04e24770081
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 806 bytes