Win.Trojan.Dakota-1 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 054f2ebe9b365855…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

17.5 KB Created: 1997-04-05 13:33:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 6.0 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 21a115f213abd53834e0e9d0ada08633 SHA-1: 5672460af472df4cecf2dbd9f9e69a15116d286d SHA-256: 054f2ebe9b36585567cbad2bd652b1186b92196ae4bde5d77b13c224e5f68dbc
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Dakota-1 · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The critical ClamAV heuristic identified the file as Win.Trojan.Dakota-1. The presence of a legacy WordBasic AutoClose macro (AutoExec) and obfuscated document body text strongly suggests malicious intent. The macro appears to be designed to execute a payload, as indicated by the variable names like 'Payload' and the obfuscated strings.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Dakota-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Dakota-1
  • 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.

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