Win.Trojan.Nuclear-6 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30701a74bd0f76de…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

31.0 KB Created: 1993-09-28 15:08:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 64642efdae2c0c9bce0d5fefe39ee86f SHA-1: 5c3194f78629dd1f08c3a940f9b8cc96c0eea0ad SHA-256: 30701a74bd0f76dea9bc56c4703f74a6759f65cb73f002162ce8a57aa834535d
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Nuclear-6 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample exhibits multiple critical OLE-related heuristic firings, including a legacy WordBasic AutoOpen macro marker and a detection by ClamAV as Win.Trojan.Nuclear-6. The embedded OLE artifact suggests it's designed to be attached to a spearphishing email, and the exploitation of legacy vulnerabilities points to client execution.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Nuclear-6 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Nuclear-6
  • Embedded Office document has suspicious static findings critical EMBEDDED_OFFICE_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A CFB/OLE Office document was found inside another file type and its carved contents matched Office exploit or payload heuristics. This catches wrapped exploit documents where the top-level file routes to a PE, archive, or generic scanner instead of Office.
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 23,296 bytes but its declared streams total only 0 bytes — 23,296 bytes (100%) 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).
  • 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.
  • CFB header with no readable streams medium OLE_PARSE_EMPTY_STREAMS
    The file begins with a valid OLE2/CFB header but exposes no directory streams. A non-empty compound document with an unreadable directory is anomalous — it is seen with truncated/corrupt files and, more importantly, with content deliberately shifted off byte boundaries to defeat parsers while the host application still recovers the object.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_off00002100.ole embedded-office Embedded OLE/CFB Office body inside ole container at offset 0x2100 23296 bytes
SHA-256: 770d4a586a0a4663cf907f723c4e97109091661d679aa003e8b4bdbd2fd82070