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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4cd81f9a45d19db…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 6f73ff1ff3111f477ce7a4e6c012e026 SHA-1: ca33d70252f62835ad086134e9a95634871f1ce5 SHA-256: f4cd81f9a45d19db1736bc0426cd6aafd682a33c9809553f5f05cc825fc2bdaf
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The VBA macro contains obfuscated code that uses CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell and Scripting.FileSystemObject. It attempts to download and execute a payload from a list of hardcoded URLs, including 'http://goyaluaa.vmeshaa.in/0v6kcny/CG/'. The script also writes a batch file to 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat' and a VBScript to 'c:\programdata\sduoixo.vbs', which are likely used to execute the downloaded payload and establish persistence. The Workbook_Open event is triggered, initiating the malicious execution flow.

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.