Analysis Overview
SHA256
ab2480e6efe9a71a4ea8d59ba2d136d1480dc882a5fff3b093f2a3a4d1390492
Threat Level: Known bad
The file ab2480e6efe9a71a4ea8d59ba2d136d1480dc882a5fff3b093f2a3a4d1390492 was found to be: Known bad.
Malicious Activity Summary
Process spawned unexpected child process
Suspicious Office macro
System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
Enumerates system info in registry
Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
Checks processor information in registry
MITRE ATT&CK
Enterprise Matrix V15
Analysis: static1
Detonation Overview
Reported
2024-11-11 17:09
Signatures
Suspicious Office macro
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Analysis: behavioral1
Detonation Overview
Submitted
2024-11-11 17:09
Reported
2024-11-11 17:11
Platform
win7-20240903-en
Max time kernel
121s
Max time network
122s
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\regsvr32.exe | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE |
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\regsvr32.exe | N/A |
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 |
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| PID 2432 wrote to memory of 2920 | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe |
| PID 2432 wrote to memory of 2920 | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe |
| PID 2432 wrote to memory of 2920 | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe |
| PID 2432 wrote to memory of 2920 | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe |
| PID 2432 wrote to memory of 2920 | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe |
| PID 2432 wrote to memory of 2920 | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe |
| PID 2432 wrote to memory of 2920 | N/A | C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.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\ab2480e6efe9a71a4ea8d59ba2d136d1480dc882a5fff3b093f2a3a4d1390492.xlsm
C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe
C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe -s ..\xda.ocx
Network
| Country | Destination | Domain | Proto |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | sorathlions.com | udp |
| HK | 23.235.163.144:80 | sorathlions.com | tcp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | www.ajaxmatters.com | udp |
| US | 172.67.147.196:80 | www.ajaxmatters.com | tcp |
| US | 172.67.147.196:443 | www.ajaxmatters.com | tcp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | c.pki.goog | udp |
| GB | 142.250.187.227:80 | c.pki.goog | tcp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | crl.microsoft.com | udp |
| GB | 2.19.117.18:80 | crl.microsoft.com | tcp |
Files
memory/2432-1-0x000000007207D000-0x0000000072088000-memory.dmp
memory/2432-0-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp
C:\Users\Admin\xda.ocx
| MD5 | 4ed8ca5542b641fddd200acebadf4e3c |
| SHA1 | 41fd7fb6cb84805fbc229cbf13620f80a5008003 |
| SHA256 | 3f03ee986c82c3be72da6272448f92d97426f53e07079334edeb502f6386cc33 |
| SHA512 | 866719609b7200cdd4d97b6a83d7fb6424d3900b555e23d2db8744539b1ae204c0da0a5e595c676ee4cad7df3f743aad1e746c750cd30afe3a74d89bf188979a |
memory/2432-22-0x000000007207D000-0x0000000072088000-memory.dmp
Analysis: behavioral2
Detonation Overview
Submitted
2024-11-11 17:09
Reported
2024-11-11 17:11
Platform
win10v2004-20241007-en
Max time kernel
133s
Max time network
137s
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\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE |
System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| Key opened | \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language | C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.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 |
Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
| Description | Indicator | Process | Target |
| N/A | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.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
| 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 |
| 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 2400 wrote to memory of 3232 | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe |
| PID 2400 wrote to memory of 3232 | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe |
| PID 2400 wrote to memory of 3232 | N/A | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE | C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.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\ab2480e6efe9a71a4ea8d59ba2d136d1480dc882a5fff3b093f2a3a4d1390492.xlsm"
C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe
C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe -s ..\xda.ocx
Network
| Country | Destination | Domain | Proto |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 209.205.72.20.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 83.210.23.2.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | roaming.officeapps.live.com | udp |
| GB | 52.109.28.47:443 | roaming.officeapps.live.com | tcp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | sorathlions.com | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 47.28.109.52.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 97.32.109.52.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 95.221.229.192.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| HK | 23.235.163.144:80 | sorathlions.com | tcp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | www.ajaxmatters.com | udp |
| US | 172.67.147.196:80 | www.ajaxmatters.com | tcp |
| US | 172.67.147.196:443 | www.ajaxmatters.com | tcp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | c.pki.goog | udp |
| GB | 142.250.187.227:80 | c.pki.goog | tcp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 133.32.126.40.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 144.163.235.23.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 196.147.67.172.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 227.187.250.142.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 67.112.168.52.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 104.219.191.52.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 56.163.245.4.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 18.31.95.13.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 98.209.201.84.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 75.209.201.84.in-addr.arpa | udp |
| US | 8.8.8.8:53 | 13.227.111.52.in-addr.arpa | udp |
Files
memory/2400-0-0x00007FFB17E30000-0x00007FFB17E40000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-1-0x00007FFB57E4D000-0x00007FFB57E4E000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-4-0x00007FFB17E30000-0x00007FFB17E40000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-3-0x00007FFB17E30000-0x00007FFB17E40000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-2-0x00007FFB57DB0000-0x00007FFB57FA5000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-6-0x00007FFB17E30000-0x00007FFB17E40000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-12-0x00007FFB57DB0000-0x00007FFB57FA5000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-11-0x00007FFB57DB0000-0x00007FFB57FA5000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-14-0x00007FFB57DB0000-0x00007FFB57FA5000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-15-0x00007FFB15DD0000-0x00007FFB15DE0000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-13-0x00007FFB57DB0000-0x00007FFB57FA5000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-10-0x00007FFB57DB0000-0x00007FFB57FA5000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-9-0x00007FFB57DB0000-0x00007FFB57FA5000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-8-0x00007FFB57DB0000-0x00007FFB57FA5000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-7-0x00007FFB17E30000-0x00007FFB17E40000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-5-0x00007FFB57DB0000-0x00007FFB57FA5000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-16-0x00007FFB15DD0000-0x00007FFB15DE0000-memory.dmp
C:\Users\Admin\xda.ocx
| MD5 | 4ed8ca5542b641fddd200acebadf4e3c |
| SHA1 | 41fd7fb6cb84805fbc229cbf13620f80a5008003 |
| SHA256 | 3f03ee986c82c3be72da6272448f92d97426f53e07079334edeb502f6386cc33 |
| SHA512 | 866719609b7200cdd4d97b6a83d7fb6424d3900b555e23d2db8744539b1ae204c0da0a5e595c676ee4cad7df3f743aad1e746c750cd30afe3a74d89bf188979a |
memory/2400-38-0x00007FFB57DB0000-0x00007FFB57FA5000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-39-0x00007FFB57E4D000-0x00007FFB57E4E000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-40-0x00007FFB57DB0000-0x00007FFB57FA5000-memory.dmp
memory/2400-41-0x00007FFB57DB0000-0x00007FFB57FA5000-memory.dmp
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\b8ab77100df80ab2.customDestinations-ms
| MD5 | 0337ffae56372777d9c5be007f73e759 |
| SHA1 | 46b6fb68fb31a0696d532a531538071d76446ce1 |
| SHA256 | f6aba676cbdec7a123d04ee83198392baeed44a2721b32988808901f15bebfb4 |
| SHA512 | 42922f219e47934337effdc64432723c2c4de193e16c8548498de9153b0c4b805eb1334b9ffc3854e8806b6345fe05d5a986dec768d872e91c7bbb81d2610375 |