Analysis Overview
SHA256
9c8221ae4227d7e8278efd58b6ca69d415b91fc9f3e195271f046c38fa9eaa5a
Threat Level: Likely malicious
The file 9c8221ae4227d7e8278efd58b6ca69d415b91fc9f3e195271f046c38fa9eaa5a was found to be: Likely malicious.
Malicious Activity Summary
Office macro that triggers on suspicious action
Suspicious Office macro
Process spawned suspicious child process
Office loads VBA resources, possible macro or embedded object present
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
Checks processor information in registry
Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
Enumerates system info in registry
MITRE ATT&CK
Enterprise Matrix V15
Analysis: static1
Detonation Overview
Reported
2024-07-19 22:04
Signatures
Office macro that triggers on suspicious action
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Suspicious Office macro
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Analysis: behavioral1
Detonation Overview
Submitted
2024-07-19 22:04
Reported
2024-07-19 22:06
Platform
win7-20240708-en
Max time kernel
25s
Max time network
16s
Command Line
Signatures
Office loads VBA resources, possible macro or embedded object present
Enumerates system info in registry
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| Key opened | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\FloatingPointProcessor | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
Processes
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\9c8221ae4227d7e8278efd58b6ca69d415b91fc9f3e195271f046c38fa9eaa5a.xls
Network
Files
memory/2848-0-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp
memory/2848-1-0x0000000072ABD000-0x0000000072AC8000-memory.dmp
memory/2848-8-0x0000000006310000-0x0000000006410000-memory.dmp
memory/2848-9-0x0000000072ABD000-0x0000000072AC8000-memory.dmp
memory/2848-10-0x0000000006310000-0x0000000006410000-memory.dmp
Analysis: behavioral2
Detonation Overview
Submitted
2024-07-19 22:04
Reported
2024-07-19 22:05
Platform
win10v2004-20240709-en
Max time kernel
36s
Max time network
34s
Command Line
Signatures
Process spawned suspicious child process
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| Parent C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE is not expected to spawn this process | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\DW\DW20.EXE | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE |
Checks processor information in registry
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| Key opened | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\0 | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| Key value queried | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0\~MHz | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| Key value queried | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0\ProcessorNameString | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| Key opened | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\0 | C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe | N/A |
| Key value queried | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0\~MHz | C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe | N/A |
| Key value queried | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0\ProcessorNameString | C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe | N/A |
Enumerates system info in registry
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| Key opened | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\BIOS | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| Key value queried | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\BIOS\SystemFamily | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| Key value queried | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\BIOS\SystemSKU | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| Key opened | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\BIOS | C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe | N/A |
| Key value queried | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\BIOS\SystemSKU | C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe | N/A |
Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| PID 1760 wrote to memory of 768 | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\DW\DW20.EXE |
| PID 1760 wrote to memory of 768 | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\DW\DW20.EXE |
| PID 768 wrote to memory of 2252 | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\DW\DW20.EXE | C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe |
| PID 768 wrote to memory of 2252 | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\DW\DW20.EXE | C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe |
Processes
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\9c8221ae4227d7e8278efd58b6ca69d415b91fc9f3e195271f046c38fa9eaa5a.xls"
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\DW\DW20.EXE
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\DW\DW20.EXE" -x -s 4780
C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe
C:\Windows\system32\dwwin.exe -x -s 4780
Network
| Country | Destination | Domain | Proto |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 240.76.109.52.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 58.55.71.13.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | roaming.officeapps.live.com | udp |
| IE | 52.109.76.243:443 | roaming.officeapps.live.com | tcp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 0.205.248.87.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 243.76.109.52.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 72.32.126.40.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 217.106.137.52.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 205.47.74.20.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 154.239.44.20.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 50.23.12.20.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 171.39.242.20.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 121.170.16.2.in-addr.arpa | udp |
Files
memory/1760-0-0x00007FFF88C90000-0x00007FFF88CA0000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-1-0x00007FFF88C90000-0x00007FFF88CA0000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-2-0x00007FFF88C90000-0x00007FFF88CA0000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-3-0x00007FFFC8CAD000-0x00007FFFC8CAE000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-4-0x00007FFF88C90000-0x00007FFF88CA0000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-5-0x00007FFF88C90000-0x00007FFF88CA0000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-10-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-12-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-11-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-9-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-13-0x00007FFF863E0000-0x00007FFF863F0000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-8-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-7-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-14-0x00007FFF863E0000-0x00007FFF863F0000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-16-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-19-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-22-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-21-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-20-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-18-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-17-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-15-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-6-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-38-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-37-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/768-40-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/768-45-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/768-55-0x00007FFF88C90000-0x00007FFF88CA0000-memory.dmp
memory/768-58-0x00007FFF88C90000-0x00007FFF88CA0000-memory.dmp
memory/768-57-0x00007FFF88C90000-0x00007FFF88CA0000-memory.dmp
memory/768-56-0x00007FFF88C90000-0x00007FFF88CA0000-memory.dmp
memory/768-59-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-60-0x00007FFFC8C10000-0x00007FFFC8E05000-memory.dmp