Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 305e5f6db38263f9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

60.0 KB Created: 2008-11-27 02:39:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 9.0
MD5: 1204fc1a10308e0acd43a61c66a05db6 SHA-1: d6fb827d55595216cd3623e59e89906cc014c107 SHA-256: 305e5f6db38263f9d841903816053420cfd75f9d484dd3b589716d6bea8e19d5
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Trojan.Hope-4'. It contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. The document body, despite being truncated, appears to be a business plan, suggesting a social engineering lure to deceive the user. The presence of a Document_Open macro indicates an attempt to automatically execute malicious actions.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Hope-4 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Hope-4
  • 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.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open 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
7fdc63d89931a939129475ca2e19ea8e8b46801aef3ce12c28eab41dc9db7406
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1809 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Hope-4
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely