Win.Trojan.Formater-2 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20adf6d8cbef002a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

23.5 KB Created: 1998-10-14 19:26:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 602e696f3a74a3d02e029da97377499d SHA-1: ad3635c246bd6adbd87f3ab37442550653c3e2ac SHA-256: 20adf6d8cbef002ae8a13b5450397bc60344ca9ed65983682da3e62d6900feca
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Formater-2 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file contains legacy WordBasic macro virus markers and is detected by ClamAV as Win.Trojan.Formater-2. The document body contains strings indicating it is a macro virus by 'Formater '98' and mentions modifying 'win.ini', suggesting a persistence or configuration modification attempt.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Formater-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Formater-2
  • 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.

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