Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f7965a261c62739…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

46.0 KB Created: 2009-03-18 16:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0
MD5: d4c62681dab47885d2d73b7eb5c2ddf7 SHA-1: 983274552feb9756caac6a7a99099e4682b92ad1 SHA-256: 1f7965a261c6273904ebde9f2b3d51868fabab51a3682eace45e3fd35bd1841c
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Trojan.Nori-1. Static analysis revealed the presence of VBA macros, specifically an AutoOpen macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code when a document is opened. The extracted VBA macro file 'macros.bas' is the primary artifact. The document body discusses environmental issues in Kazakhstan, which appears to be a lure to disguise the malicious intent of the embedded macro.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Nori-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Nori-1
  • 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.
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • 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
50b5a091f6f5cee4ab646dbb9f6e9a98f8914782018ff8b704d7dfc1f28db34f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8080 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Nori-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely