Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2add898d46e9a2d8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

20.4 KB Created: 2021-07-11 09:14:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000
MD5: f7aef95dda226ee6924e3e6c03ab6828 SHA-1: 0bf7413624d80a0a7d4eb207acab20e1d61ccc25 SHA-256: 2add898d46e9a2d8c7dabdb9873267fc7a8acd9463147c11b7abb8cacc149670
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros, specifically an AutoOpen macro, which is a common technique for initial execution. The VBA code includes declarations for Windows API functions like CreateProcess and HeapAlloc, indicating an intent to execute arbitrary code. ClamAV also detected the file as malware, further supporting its malicious nature. The presence of the AutoOpen macro and the VBA code strongly suggests this document is intended to be delivered via spearphishing.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10015188-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10015188-0
  • 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.
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartex
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/ink
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3d
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cid
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
72db5fda110d3c64e2757a064b9900e2dbc1dc6d66bdcf26c72741822b55a2ab
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 4473 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
2e2f42cc1b40bf30568ae001c20fde21f37200484defc76231af82e831794ca8
vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 21504 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10015188-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely