Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1 — Office (OLE) / .EXE malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f827f27a5ebc9568…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .EXE

118.5 KB Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: cf8c6b1001c0b0ec9e0b830dea682836 SHA-1: 81e1338603c3a82e88940f14d50d23f319177971 SHA-256: f827f27a5ebc9568b36b680515b360748dc8187662deb2f56010e85d29a68519
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1. Static analysis detected VBA macros, specifically an Auto_Open macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening an Office document. The presence of the Auto_Open macro strongly suggests the intent is to run arbitrary code, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • 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
0072ea53d191e53712753e91fcffbafa82d58452b5a5eea099b7832c880e41d4
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2632 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Trojan.Laroux-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely