Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a3fb728cc6981b4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

9.50 MB Created: 2014-11-04 18:21:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 12.0000 First seen: 2020-12-28
MD5: ad6064927abbc6073a465ea28597ad34 SHA-1: 92e66c24ade39dd92816aac7630ed06d09fcb545 SHA-256: 2a3fb728cc6981b4e2ed4f34fee31522dd8e54703d88f152fd328c097e50ecf5
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1129 Execution through API

The file is a malicious OOXML document containing embedded OLE objects. One of these objects is identified as an auto-executable payload, indicating the document's primary function is to deliver and execute malware. The presence of external hyperlinks and relationships further supports the malicious intent, likely for initial access via spearphishing.

Heuristics 5

  • Ole10Native package drops an auto-executable payload critical OFFICE_PACKAGE_RISKY_FILE
    OLE Package displayName or fullPath ends in a directly auto-executable extension (a runnable binary or a script the default shell host runs on double-click). Embedding such a payload inside an Office document has no benign authoring use — it is a malware-delivery dropper.
  • External relationship high OOXML_EXTERNAL_REL
    External target in word/_rels/settings.xml.rels: file:///C:\Documents and Settings\pkamani\Desktop\hbc\Design Specification - Design Name.dot
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • External hyperlinks (2) low OOXML_EXTERNAL_HYPERLINKS
    Document contains 2 external hyperlinks — clickable URLs are stored as external relationships. First target: http://svnprdrk1p:9081/svn/sterlingrepos/WCC/tags/2014/OMSD2_201419121711
  • 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://svnprdrk1p:9081/svn/sterlingrepos/WCC/tags/2014/OMSD2_201419121711 Document hyperlink

Extracted artifacts 32

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 53248 bytes
SHA-256: 7d2290720edf3de836a6150a9fe5a695219f5d41a3da9310de4687cae8115d8b
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin ole-package OOXML word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin Ole10Native stream: Ole10Native 50287 bytes
SHA-256: b6660d9dc16b6d61dc61a8ad1cb84d1c7ce978e8cae6d417ff03082cfc4ff90e
ooxml_oleobject_01.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/oleObject2.bin 13312 bytes
SHA-256: d6d868df56a11ef60c018cf9d5b4bd7d0f8150708232a016d2f5056336fd4ac8
ooxml_oleobject_01_ole10native_00.bin ole-package OOXML word/embeddings/oleObject2.bin Ole10Native stream: Ole10Native 10301 bytes
SHA-256: 13ef60e32c1b099d4cdcf08dcf4bb93d8151d9d880e272fdbeca3353133ee0e5
ooxml_oleobject_02.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Excel_97-2003_Worksheet1.xls 159744 bytes
SHA-256: c9b03a2752f7ec5775594b795734bc876c482897fda5ed17e7a3773941014794
ooxml_oleobject_03.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Excel_Worksheet4.xlsx 40576 bytes
SHA-256: db323c380d9cbd3c0db1871e53a9274aa4a3b43d4854d20124906afa82a5a467
ooxml_oleobject_04.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Excel_97-2003_Worksheet6.xls 71168 bytes
SHA-256: c22c4225af3202ffc8b1fbcaafad4424a940384e55f5133152645f175a9e5f46
ooxml_oleobject_05.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Excel_Worksheet3.xlsx 37291 bytes
SHA-256: 544bfd53cb3bc96cf5b40353148529a36304574afaca8240e5ae1301af07357b
ooxml_oleobject_06.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Excel_97-2003_Worksheet5.xls 391168 bytes
SHA-256: 3049880b09a041b0fca6e3a0920c0b4795b91780533300a9c3731a1cd0756142
ooxml_oleobject_07.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Excel_97-2003_Worksheet4.xls 83456 bytes
SHA-256: a8bd948b7e006ec4f6589b9be3425724e00351cd6c486fd0ad05b03aa8159f4e
ooxml_oleobject_08.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Excel_97-2003_Worksheet7.xls 90624 bytes
SHA-256: 8450f54470979f254ec4cd4eef4a9af86539af653535dfbbeb164297e29c354f
ooxml_oleobject_09.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Word_Document2.docx 8388608 bytes
SHA-256: 24437e42c03a0687b47724c366908df7e22f9c3c68cf566f0e74fb4f15857aed
ooxml_oleobject_10.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Excel_97-2003_Worksheet3.xls 83968 bytes
SHA-256: 35e1d14b84e98d6a16b5b1e599ac355363739b1e79dcc425e819475111eb4835
ooxml_oleobject_11.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Excel_Worksheet5.xlsx 42366 bytes
SHA-256: 94008283f9a298aaedf753d975b2814a98c67ff466d8a1f35e3ab59edc8e2326
ooxml_oleobject_12.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Excel_Worksheet1.xlsx 12304 bytes
SHA-256: c1488d27dc5bede5c957f577c9e625d1feaee35ea0275b9f90d34ae22aeb9a34
ooxml_oleobject_13.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Excel_97-2003_Worksheet8.xls 73728 bytes
SHA-256: a795431c59286636a198081bb4afb8b0e637163e24849a4fa3ab6dbab8515a81
ooxml_oleobject_14.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Excel_97-2003_Worksheet2.xls 77824 bytes
SHA-256: 0d63dfbfb0f0c9b9f77309c5c266de5286cd03786c949b6ba2483a2b8027e49a
emf_00.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image12.emf 5612 bytes
SHA-256: 32e26be618804518d9b42aa84d1bfa912a5622980bb586de97e5e190d5b22775
emf_01.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image11.emf 5580 bytes
SHA-256: cf3cf8f8babd139271c7916cd9bcad31c4e8e910e3f69eeabd39c3e88264c255
emf_02.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image15.emf 5536 bytes
SHA-256: 0218d06165117529b5ccca2e5be3f9db2778cd673e6f27ceb043cdb699eb29ea
emf_03.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image10.emf 5668 bytes
SHA-256: a246ca85e6d2786ec1ea2b3300058a07e283d68be4c008ee93a583846872c8f9
emf_04.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image14.emf 5604 bytes
SHA-256: aadc54e658b9e9686c9382095e62d1652eacbbdd42f6b7eb2c441eb7b6c093d4
emf_05.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image13.emf 5652 bytes
SHA-256: 6be2501035928da4cefc9ba4ac29c66e631d219c51f8688bb8a2ab06aa311bef
emf_06.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image9.emf 5756 bytes
SHA-256: e35670383650557bea930dcfecdedc4791863ec66072fa9da3c6fda3790e4814
emf_07.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image3.emf 5560 bytes
SHA-256: cbb6d2d247682863b1760aaa4b5dce09f067831cae05a6de45fd7e0abfebe328
emf_08.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image2.emf 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 0e6be5e4e46b4f76c028d57748f5183a72d2747a0846c6e233881825c5c23b55
emf_09.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image1.emf 5512 bytes
SHA-256: b7d222e67649f66fa461e0139c9b138a4ba4be8f69a5363c86b25c1a2335453c
emf_10.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image4.emf 5184 bytes
SHA-256: 0b00a04762c3586c40b1c7e4747fd5a1b539fdb439f5a7a9fb9b8a7663f4151b
emf_11.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image5.emf 5588 bytes
SHA-256: 9a8e8558f74da4ba06a442fb749c1fe4a914d4b8f3510b4a24f05a49fada4e6d
emf_12.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image8.emf 5612 bytes
SHA-256: c4d8c5d8dd887bf4fba556c0f4e2719f71dfd23bd3e266fcb397d951ff13cd8a
emf_13.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image7.emf 5572 bytes
SHA-256: 7fa10a16ae23c0e74ea8ded7e908e10e71ed5fc9e96c110124bc51b539acda65
emf_14.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image6.emf 5756 bytes
SHA-256: b429360f4a653998747f0d55697b07e30d3ce63bd1000d5d9980bce398301810