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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12c83025fe53146b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

196.0 KB Created: 2012-09-21 09:56:09 Authoring application: Windows Installer
MD5: 1e52b11a97c9ec3699421def2b146149 SHA-1: e58134f2eedd4f0ce823686f01f7f522dd5b89c0 SHA-256: 12c83025fe53146bb5d55cd409b0a8ef7f949906b25a330d48f557c642990979
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious OLE document containing an embedded PE executable. Heuristics indicate the use of CreateProcess, LoadLibrary, and GetProcAddress APIs, suggesting the document is designed to drop and execute the embedded payload. The embedded executable is the primary indicator of malicious activity.

Heuristics 4

  • Embedded PE executable critical OLE_EMBEDDED_EXE
    MZ/PE header found inside document — possible embedded executable
  • Reference to CreateProcess API high SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS
    Reference to CreateProcess API
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_00006000.exe
af411f10050102204a331c2f7c88506cfba5a00fd758f8b224a4563fe0f964bd
embedded-pe Office MZ+PE at offset 0x6000 176128 bytes