Malicious Office (OLE) / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0045611b5e5b2a3d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

241.0 KB
MD5: ddff0c52375030ea13d9014580d10c24 SHA-1: 91559e5a02c3e15c434c75fe08bb45aac007e852 SHA-256: 0045611b5e5b2a3d60be529ecd1b81048f8efab3c420f9bbff0fd0a9851b9a1e
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information T1055 Process Injection

The sample exhibits characteristics of malicious software, including XOR-encoded strings and PEB access, which are common obfuscation and evasion techniques. The OLE document structure with embedded objects and a large slack space anomaly further indicates potential malicious activity. Without further script or network indicators, the specific family and attack pattern remain unclear.

Heuristics 4

  • Office EPRINT stream contains EMF object high CVE related OLE_EPRINT_EMF_OBJECT
    OLE ObjectPool contains an EPRINT stream with EMF data. This is rare in normal documents and is CVE-2007-3893/MS07-046-family evidence when paired with Office exploit payload anomalies, but the malformed EMF record is not proven by this rule alone.
  • XOR-encoded strings (key 0x81) critical SC_XOR_ENCODED
    Found 8 Windows library/API name(s) XOR-encoded with single-byte key 0x81: 'kernel32.dll', 'kernel32.dll', 'kernel32.dll', 'kernel32.dll', 'advapi32.dll', 'advapi32.dll', 'KERNEL32.DLL', 'LoadLibraryA'
  • PEB access via FS segment (x86) high SC_PEB_ACCESS
    PEB access via FS segment (x86)
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 246,788 bytes but its declared streams total only 60,708 bytes — 186,080 bytes (75%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).