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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a62173d0404ac94…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

29.5 KB Created: 2001-04-28 00:12:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 9.0
MD5: a10379865047f3af72cd34d4ae5bec2a SHA-1: 19427175afeb2f003cb81bcdd33ebab202a2125d SHA-256: 2a62173d0404ac9468440e2458fe084a625e8f7f4f45a88ffe4f3266a8a2e0a0
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1505.003 Server Software Component: Web Shell

The file is a Microsoft Word document containing VBA macros, specifically triggering on Document_Open. The macro code appears to be designed to overwrite existing macros with its own content, suggesting a mechanism for payload delivery or persistence. The heuristic firings and the presence of VBA macros strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The specific family is not identifiable from the provided evidence.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Alive-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Alive-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
7603d4eb35f29d9889c589293d286f9d26e48b99d1f9446178eacb73cf70b88c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1690 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Alive-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely