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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c809f668a690856…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

177.1 KB Created: 2020-09-18 22:05:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: b105ee6f9c66440254064d94410fc50c SHA-1: 619df81e6d59f5202711519b1f49ac4993cdb43e SHA-256: 1c809f668a6908569aace4d28668374af59045ea330f169f129940947d13d739
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a Microsoft Word document containing a Document_Open VBA macro. This macro utilizes CreateObject to execute arbitrary code, as indicated by the 'VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens' heuristic. The presence of the 'macros.bas' file further confirms the macro execution. This behavior is characteristic of a downloader, aiming to fetch and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763712-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763712-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled VBA/cache stream contains an auto-execution token together with shell/download/object-execution tokens. This catches p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where visible source is unavailable.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
f035cd1023dade0b5d5e126cbab797fd9aeb292e781548b39fa794a9356990ee
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19197 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.