Win.Trojan.Date-3 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 028356245f783db6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

7.5 KB Created: 1996-11-19 21:51:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 6.0 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 6bbe68424371cff96bd0ed2b104ff719 SHA-1: 654811fb1df3779a22013841edb32ddda28ca8a4 SHA-256: 028356245f783db6e4f81a0e192339357b844f84a1d868ddd3a2f760562fdbb1
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Date-3 · confidence 90%

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

The critical ClamAV detection of Win.Trojan.Date-3 and the presence of a legacy WordBasic AutoOpen macro strongly indicate malicious intent. The AutoOpen macro is a known mechanism for executing embedded code, typically used to download and run further malicious components. The document body contains numerous references to 'AutoOpen', reinforcing this finding.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Date-3 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Date-3
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.