Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f577203108b081be…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

41.7 KB Created: 2021-06-22 12:43:05 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300
MD5: 6eac08c3380780ee5ad24da35945755b SHA-1: c5804294bd2e0e7d1ffeb3401379ccfec0303a71 SHA-256: f577203108b081be642d594b0584d8627a15dc12fc3ccabdf3ddaebded94eb24
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an OOXML document containing VBA macros. Heuristics indicate the VBA code references PowerShell and cmd.exe, and uses GetObject. The VBA code itself appears to be heavily obfuscated, but its structure suggests it is designed to decode and execute a secondary payload, likely via PowerShell. The presence of these indicators strongly suggests a malicious document designed for payload delivery.

Heuristics 4

  • PowerShell reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_PS
    PowerShell reference in VBA
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
4263d927a8acaf79cb63b4e1e548d276c3e8e43f695a32446ee0017e11346233
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 34430 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
71f9b13506cf696f7cc5aae4c482007018344699aa254179a215359f82d9d4a2
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 11264 bytes