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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01fdd01c978b69a8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

32.0 KB Created: 2021-05-21 07:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 6f1fe99a6ffc835b50874a63711d2482 SHA-1: 72b82b467009e5aea253bd2c53e81a7b5618fe6b SHA-256: 01fdd01c978b69a8df70f2e5fa10bdeec06aaec4235b6cc94e4c51ea5f55f013
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro designed to execute code upon opening. The macro attempts to overwrite its own code with a string literal 'APMPKILL', likely as part of a payload delivery or obfuscation mechanism. This indicates a macro-based downloader attack pattern.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Macro.APMPKILL-6097118-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.APMPKILL-6097118-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
f136142b40965ce41763caed3acb0ccab48ef04e860145c7f9d9ef01967df9ba
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1027 bytes