Malicious Office (OLE) / .DOCX — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f8c5f8173199d58…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

160.1 KB Created: 2020-09-23 21:57:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: cacf4e5f30eecec7f44e67f10894ba83 SHA-1: 578835191e5b57184f8e273bc9237f3ffba1f998 SHA-256: 2f8c5f8173199d582e3535ffcda34ccfa553e9b5d8ab915b54d4d0307061ed19
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC indicate that this document contains VBA macros designed to execute automatically upon opening. The presence of a Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls strongly suggests the document's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload. The benign URL listed is likely a red herring or part of the document's structure rather than a malicious IOC.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Mryv-9765643-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Mryv-9765643-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled VBA/cache stream contains an auto-execution token together with shell/download/object-execution tokens. This catches p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where visible source is unavailable.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
d7dd2a73d7d39dc729b85cfde71706f8b2534ea5cd633d43e9c623fb8097a814
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20294 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.