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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34d91dd2c961c793…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

194.7 KB Created: 2020-09-18 21:15:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 1aea0e7111f81bf5f41d92b6b8363d51 SHA-1: a0fbe8eebe5204df885ad9a2be57990728bd9b3f SHA-256: 34d91dd2c961c7932b2e9f2a6ce803cdd745ef4d3b0fd60d429858237f8e45da
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics indicate this DOCX file is malicious. The presence of a Document_Open VBA macro, which is designed to execute automatically upon opening the document, strongly suggests a downloader or dropper functionality. The macro uses CreateObject, a common technique for launching malicious code. The embedded URL, though marked as benign, is likely a placeholder or part of a larger obfuscation scheme. The file's primary purpose appears to be initiating a download of a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763611-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763611-0
  • 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
27aa07f405fa9b3280133cc26ba8fa4c11df7235c7ef1a37f33a0286291c2144
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19156 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.