Win.Trojan.Varmint-2 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13716eaf81627a69…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

15.5 KB Created: 1997-05-02 10:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: e93a8f8cf59726b8294dd7e2733b0234 SHA-1: 999606c6bf4c9f671d607d095d06373e8957f47c SHA-256: 13716eaf81627a69651883f164668427c8d846ad0533be7c58d8b0c8288b954e
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Varmint-2 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file contains legacy WordBasic macro-virus markers and is detected by ClamAV as Win.Trojan.Varmint-2. The document body contains numerous references to antivirus software installation directories and commands, suggesting an attempt to interfere with or disable security software. The presence of legacy macro code indicates an older, likely destructive, malware family.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Varmint-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Varmint-2
  • 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.

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