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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0301ceff4ae136d0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

761.5 KB Created: 2020-10-21 17:11:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: e256c24841bf35e3eca2a914d3c5c2ea SHA-1: f21c03fcf766455d820a67cfec35821d0ff4db18 SHA-256: 0301ceff4ae136d0e349a096fdbb77617ac2d15e318a5846ccf52e91ecbaa2bc
282 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that executes code. Heuristics indicate a heap spray pattern and a reference to Windows Script Host, suggesting malicious script execution. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic strongly implies the document's purpose is to deceive the user into handling a password-protected archive, a common tactic for dropper malware to bypass security scans. No specific family could be identified.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Sdrop-9782466-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Sdrop-9782466-0
  • Heap-spray pattern detected high SC_HEAP_SPRAY
    Repeated 0x41 (A) bytes found
  • Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT
    Reference to Windows Script Host
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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
a5d7ac9827401de1af06b89a6db714ac7d1041fe92f0e33012cfbcd4559e12e8
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 14029 bytes