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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ae59f9a13a9da1f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

21.0 KB Created: 1996-09-02 15:49:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 6.0 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 9bbbc9a276221f3a0da4e2dce4fe710e SHA-1: 62331a2a3ddbb6baa60cb37ce867d5e3fbcc826f SHA-256: 1ae59f9a13a9da1f419f11979e7f068b3044bec485b5ccbbf621d9642985ca50
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Hassle-1 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample was detected as Win.Trojan.Hassle-1 by ClamAV. Static analysis revealed legacy WordBasic macro virus markers, specifically 'ToolsMacro', indicating the presence of a macro designed to execute malicious actions. The document body itself appears to be a legitimate-looking project requirements document, likely serving as a lure.

Heuristics 2

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