Sload — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20ff913877010d96…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

82.9 KB Created: 2018-10-05 08:20:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-04-17
MD5: 4fcf76367e0d0813c0979d93cdeed905 SHA-1: 9f440ace4ca543c9f7ea56fb50cc249d82225805 SHA-256: 20ff913877010d96def5e230cec49533d11b6984fdb712d703f65aaef774e575
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Sload · confidence 85%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file was detected by ClamAV as Doc.Downloader.Sload-6794696-0, indicating it functions as a downloader. Although VBA macros could not be extracted due to an unsupported format, the presence of an embedded URL and the ClamAV signature strongly suggest the document's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload. This aligns with the typical behavior of the Sload family.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Sload-6794696-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Sload-6794696-0
  • Unsupported Office format for VBA extraction info OFFICE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED
    The Analyzer could not extract VBA macros: the document may be legacy, encrypted or malformed.
  • 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)