Win.Trojan.Formater-3 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b5bed75ffb59826…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

21.0 KB Created: 1998-03-05 16:49:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 043b58ac6a193ca79298f7b4b7c14432 SHA-1: 5454af5a7b63378243d1371095d1e741dffb6314 SHA-256: 2b5bed75ffb59826ecb4c3ae814b9426f6757bced130c77a2c14c4e8c9b936c5
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Formater-3 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file exhibits characteristics of a legacy WordBasic macro virus, specifically identified by ClamAV as Win.Trojan.Formater-3. The presence of macro-related keywords like 'AutoOpen', 'ToolsMacro', and 'Counter', along with references to 'FORMATER.DLL' and specific document paths, strongly suggests it's designed to execute malicious code within Microsoft Word. The macro functionality likely aims to spread or perform other harmful actions.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Formater-3 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Formater-3
  • Legacy WordBasic macro-virus markers high OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_MACRO_VIRUS
    OLE Word document contains legacy WordBasic auto-execution macro markers such as AutoOpen plus ToolsMacro/MacroFile/fileMacro/globMacro or named historical macro-virus strings. These old Word 6/95 macro forms are not exposed as a modern VBA project, so normal VBA source extraction can miss them.

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