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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33954d4c06aed914…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

73.0 KB
MD5: 937bd7b5eb3dff89f7d3fba226a6465c SHA-1: 3fcd1efb1a79e073e4935c555ca537d5555b7918 SHA-256: 33954d4c06aed914d5b211a71f2a3e8e9deb025e51b6651f494a72a143efb53c
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample contains VBA macros that are triggered by the 'document_open' event. The macro executes a Shell command to run 'c:\users\public\compareForHtml.hta' with specific arguments. This HTA file is likely a second-stage payload, indicating a downloader or dropper attack pattern. The obfuscated nature of the arguments suggests an attempt to evade detection.

Heuristics 5

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • 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://schemas.microsoft.com/aml/2001/core
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartex
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/ink
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3d
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/auxHint
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml/sp2
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/schemaLibrary/2003/core

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
ef230ee9d842eaa0d74b52c2de041f98ef400538067ad424e75ad0142dc2347d
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1438 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.