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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7894939a617b36a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

75.0 KB Created: 2023-01-26 07:35:09 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2023-01-31
MD5: 12b60158f29a0aecc0e0021545f00877 SHA-1: 23f0ab813846bd01a36901fcb3d9644dbba26316 SHA-256: f7894939a617b36a04824fcd202a00304d3e19251fa27533f66becdf4ab29e16
208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer T1204.002 Malicious File

The VBA macro contains a critical heuristic firing for URLDownloadToFile, indicating it attempts to download a file from a remote source. The script reconstructs the URL 'http://2ht40t1p11s4:6/12/3d6op66ler90to8ol1.c4o0m4' and uses ShellExecute to run 'rundll32.exe' with the downloaded file, likely to execute a second-stage payload. The Environ() calls suggest it may attempt to determine a save location within the user's documents folder.

Heuristics 5

  • Reference to URLDownloadToFile API critical SC_STR_URLDOWNLOAD
    Reference to URLDownloadToFile API
  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • URLDownloadToFile in VBA critical OLE_VBA_DOWNLOAD
    URLDownloadToFile in VBA
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON
    Environ() call (env variable access)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
fcf4ee92d30d1db5bfff8ae44b772237476df5852be01c11dea9395d4b53551d
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1780 bytes