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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd31208b16313584…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

14.3 KB Created: 2020-05-17 21:48:22 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 15.0300
MD5: 4dd4dc761a24b633fe5c5f43308630ee SHA-1: 3df501643cde0bb93b35575610e49f30aef36f3e SHA-256: fd31208b16313584d805bc9ab81f1f74ed7dd9176e81c2e029d7dce4831cf833
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The presence of a Workbook_Open macro indicates that malicious VBA code will execute automatically when the Excel file is opened. The CreateObject heuristic further suggests that the macro is likely attempting to execute arbitrary code or download a second-stage payload. No specific family could be identified from the static analysis.

Heuristics 4

  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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 project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
a7a6b8f5647bf2adcde4fdc417f5376c561b074ae9c2c8c4dfbd138b3acc2c06
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 3265 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
vbaProject_00.bin
5ddc5f6d61bf6fad819d18d28ad8d0b2d01abe9ec2bb939fe7434ce541a519b8
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 18432 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.