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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0deca3a062a057b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

93.0 KB Created: 2018-12-06 20:43:11 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-07-21
MD5: c0e584e2df0577b59d69bebc65ba58ee SHA-1: c12bf78c24fbc7acc4a74686a64e925239023027 SHA-256: f0deca3a062a057b45bd075aef290b9bd88180c4f72743c29907dc3b934121d8
360 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical OLE_VBA_SHELL and OLE_VBA_WSCRIPT heuristics indicate the use of WScript.Shell to execute commands. The OLE_VBA_HTTP_DROP_EXEC heuristic confirms that the VBA code downloads a file from an HTTP source and saves it to disk, likely for execution. The Workbook_Open macro is automatically triggered upon opening the Excel file, facilitating the execution of the malicious payload.

Heuristics 8

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • WScript.Shell usage critical OLE_VBA_WSCRIPT
    WScript.Shell usage
  • VBA downloads and writes a file to disk critical OLE_VBA_HTTP_DROP_EXEC
    VBA reads an HTTP response body and writes it to disk (ADODB.Stream SaveToFile). Combined with the auto-exec/Shell paths this is a download-drop dropper even when the COM ProgIDs are built dynamically to evade keyword scanning.
  • 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.
  • 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
2460bea4d3a46d8bb011c35a7f10f0a8654cc514cbf64e7fa463c52401193e82		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 13318 bytes

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