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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f81a5a8c8ce21133…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

145.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 97ff15aad1266d95039099e928f32262 SHA-1: f44d74696aad13d96c40879f3e93e579f95cdbc0 SHA-256: f81a5a8c8ce21133421377ddb747b5c21efd8bdb2915d2ff08af98e33391d743
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open auto-execution routine, which is a common delivery mechanism for malware. The script uses CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell and Scripting.FileSystemObject, indicating it intends to execute commands and manipulate files. The script attempts to download payloads from multiple URLs, including 'http://reumatismlinica.com/./scCnm3mbJRpsaKBbrC/', 'https://shodmanjar.com/wp-admin/xJE K4Pd3N/', 'http://tubelocal.net/wp-admin/X4Xm4Mk/', 'https://pacifichomebroker.com/roderick/RRk/', and 'https://molina-journal.com/rodeirick/'. It also attempts to write a batch file to 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat' and a VBScript to 'c:\programdata\sduoixo.vbs', likely to establish persistence or further execute malicious actions.

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.