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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f873363cb4cd4233…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

142.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 563a0bb27b596642870d5b57d9766bad SHA-1: cb60409710050ca316159c70bcc6d6e358d7b498 SHA-256: f873363cb4cd42334b437c516b6131943eb6aa794a1423b82a0ef8d3f9257b5b
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1036.005 Match Legitimate Name or Location

The sample is a macro-enabled Excel file that leverages a Workbook_Open event to execute a Windows Script Host (Wscript.Shell) command. This command appears to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from a list of URLs, including 'http://goyaluaat.vmesha.in/0v6kcnky/CG/'. The script also attempts to create a batch file at 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat' and a VBScript at 'c:\programdata\sduoixo.vbs', likely to facilitate further execution or persistence. The presence of Wscript.Shell and the obfuscated command line arguments strongly suggest a downloader or droppper functionality.

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.