Win.Trojan.BadBoy-9 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12b71d9549153b1e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

8.0 KB First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 47724124add799ad68e378d6c92209b7 SHA-1: 4135c812736860952e42ae8c5d5fd63207149a14 SHA-256: 12b71d9549153b1e18a82430ef99d9dcbcb8ce4630b0e284c21642d84097cc7e
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.BadBoy-9 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample exhibits characteristics of a legacy macro virus, specifically identified as 'RSN MACRO VIRUS Goat file' and detected by ClamAV as 'Win.Trojan.BadBoy-9'. The embedded WordBasic macros, including AutoOpen, AutoExec, and FileSaveAs, are indicative of malicious intent to execute arbitrary code upon document interaction. The document body contains numerous strings related to these macros and file operations, suggesting an attempt to spread or perform unauthorized actions.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.BadBoy-9 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.BadBoy-9
  • Legacy WordBasic macro-virus markers high OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_MACRO_VIRUS
    OLE Word document contains legacy WordBasic auto-execution macro markers such as AutoOpen plus ToolsMacro/MacroFile/fileMacro/globMacro or named historical macro-virus strings. These old Word 6/95 macro forms are not exposed as a modern VBA project, so normal VBA source extraction can miss them.