MALICIOUS
100
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File
The file is a Microsoft Word document exhibiting OLE slack anomalies and XOR-encoded strings, indicating obfuscation typical of malicious documents. The presence of these heuristics suggests the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. No specific family could be identified due to the lack of script content or clear indicators.
Heuristics 2
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XOR-encoded strings (key 0x95) critical SC_XOR_ENCODEDFound 2 Windows library/API name(s) XOR-encoded with single-byte key 0x95: 'LoadLibraryA', 'GetProcAddress'
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OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALYOLE file is 175,224 bytes but its declared streams total only 16,486 bytes — 158,738 bytes (91%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
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