Concept — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dcfa98269a00543…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

41.5 KB Created: 1998-01-01 00:54:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0
MD5: 6079ed3ed66377eadf89482f4cfe3906 SHA-1: fe366cdcd4db913429463610ab3c419c1101a0d9 SHA-256: 2dcfa98269a0054357c78aeda55cf027087ef9e32b34b8441ca98daa149eacfc
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Concept · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder T1059.005 Visual Basic

The critical ClamAV detections (Doc.Trojan.Concept-28 and Doc.Trojan.Allen-4) strongly indicate a malicious document. The presence of an AutoOpen VBA macro, identified by the OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN heuristic, is a common technique for executing malicious code upon document opening. The AutoOpen macro in the 'macros.bas' script attempts to copy itself and other macros to global template locations such as 'Global:Autoexec', 'Global:RpAE', and 'Global:FileSave', which is a clear indicator of establishing persistence. The script's intent is to install protection macros and disinfect the Normal template, but the underlying mechanism is designed for malicious macro execution and persistence.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Concept-28 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Concept-28
  • 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 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
5531f4bf13eaa339d2defba473e1acd14fb994f06bec67a036318e1968a24ada
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19739 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Allen-4
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely