Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27f6df299b5773f6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

28.0 KB Created: 2007-12-02 16:52:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 10.0
MD5: 0c9ea641c9160d4bab5c2eebcfd17514 SHA-1: c7897dd503e29884b03b633cb1752bacd1faefd2 SHA-256: 27f6df299b5773f69f4324de292631f2536420586ea96bfb35bfdaa7e9f6b016
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is a Microsoft Word document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro, which is a common technique for initial execution. The document body presents a legal-sounding agreement, likely a lure to trick the user into enabling macros. The presence of VBA macros and the Document_Open heuristic strongly suggest the intent is to execute malicious code upon opening the document, potentially to download a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Strings-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Strings-1
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
bb3fdd3d064cdcf6a4f7e8ac833ee1d18b8cc1270816d75b45c36fc78384837d
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 909 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Strings-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely