Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 323587aceeed4825…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

74.0 KB Created: 2009-05-26 20:29:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 10.1
MD5: d13c0c1b4cf1f3788b16007bb25040d4 SHA-1: 938b947ac9429e5fd26c19dee410d3c63422b9e3 SHA-256: 323587aceeed4825a2edec2c1d37cf6cb3ac04117ae63950764aa7afa55dd9fa
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro. The presence of obfuscated VBA code in 'macros.bas' suggests it's designed to execute arbitrary code, likely downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, though confirmed benign, indicates an attempt to include external resources. The document body content is unrelated to the malicious functionality.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Story-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Story-1
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • 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://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
315a7abd8c75d9422796ed211af52cb763bd14b1ac2c6d875e270fe814cf8ae8
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 7047 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 9 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls.