Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c8bc9d2efc6442a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

51.5 KB Created: 2008-05-28 08:21:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.3.5
MD5: 8c95ae38524734bee65583c3a70f86f4 SHA-1: 20b2740d8b6dcc60a7d99b48d82c5144a2e422b8 SHA-256: 1c8bc9d2efc6442a0860982c5f843dfcf02b1a7b83c22e2b4d80a69da24ddb25
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The file is a Microsoft Word document containing VBA macros. A critical heuristic firing indicates the presence of Shell() calls within the VBA code, which is commonly used to execute arbitrary commands. The extracted artifact 'macros.bas' and the 'OLE_VBA_SHELL' heuristic strongly suggest that this macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detections further corroborate the malicious nature of the file and its extracted components.

Heuristics 5

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
18e80123ca285537b53a532a7699ad24cfd2d71dfb3d72b1158e4148aec1e45e
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6244 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-3
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.