Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · f8d975209d532600

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

680.0 KB Created: 2020-06-22 10:41:03 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: d0d466da0bafe7633cf4f2e94269b354 SHA-1: 1fbd5a236e0d13377f5d6198baf44bf8554aa562 SHA-256: f8d975209d532600b01aec71f71fa080a67489ade8055de98488cd606ef6312f

340 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical OLE_VBA_SHELL heuristic indicates the use of the Shell() function within VBA macros, a common technique for executing arbitrary commands or launching other executables. The Workbook_Open macro firing further suggests that the malicious code is designed to run automatically upon opening the document. The ClamAV detection of 'Xls.Packed.Logan-9738662-0' strongly points to malicious intent, likely involving the download and execution of a second-stage payload. No specific URLs or hostnames were extracted, limiting the IOCs to the ClamAV signature.

Heuristics 8

Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL

Shell() call in VBA
ClamAV: Xls.Packed.Logan-9738662-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Packed.Logan-9738662-0
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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `c002a21b25eb16c7cf03a813431739fc85b8749f5f8d813ff87921f514f0b8e4`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	22654 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
`ole10native_00.bin` `50bbdd9fbbbbfb058d8ce90c36c6dd737df05c51155ec25e62815722e58296e1`	ole-package	OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD00356439/Ole10Native	439791 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.

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