Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02d56e5f8a14a2a6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

151.7 KB Created: 2020-09-14 20:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 1b21eb38a48a617ce2ab73d040ff85f9 SHA-1: cc7d1c72f7f9735a6ec51fcc4406ea911ff01a8d SHA-256: 02d56e5f8a14a2a6cfaae976bce6571984573f2374cfa11d3f72f065ae9978b1
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains a Document_Open VBA macro that triggers an obfuscated PowerShell command. This command is likely a stager designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of the 'OLE_USERFORM_OBFUSCATED_POWERSHELL' heuristic and the structure of the VBA code strongly suggest this malicious behavior.

Heuristics 7

  • Hidden UserForm PowerShell EncodedCommand stager critical OLE_USERFORM_OBFUSCATED_POWERSHELL
    OLE document contains a UTF-16LE form/property string with an obfuscated PowerShell -EncodedCommand payload. The observed macro family reconstructs this hidden string with Split/Join or UserForm property reads and launches it through WMI/COM process creation. This is downloader malware, not an Office CVE exploit.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762672-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762672-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled VBA/cache stream contains an auto-execution token together with shell/download/object-execution tokens. This catches p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where visible source is unavailable.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
c7305ccc26d392bb87c692b42d2d6bc38b982a0e4da883514cef9164df30503f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18576 bytes