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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35b6316194a6cbc2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

152.1 KB Created: 2020-12-28 22:51:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 5b2ae4c656afd6be282c45e6fa07c26e SHA-1: 248e662c2f4099b343a1c08f6841a5eba4f3376f SHA-256: 35b6316194a6cbc26240c81d7c2059d49155ba961f0892c6b193bbd6454d6576
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a Document_Open macro suggests an attempt to automatically execute code upon opening the document. The extracted document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains patterns consistent with macro execution. The primary function appears to be downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
d65866a56f536df94b944d564f763521883c7d713205f64364dd856778217514
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6039 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.