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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37895a4daabc46e2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

153.1 KB Created: 2020-09-22 12:58:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f297c3ca1fc2f52f4576da11113a2bca SHA-1: e6161ac79b1d909e0ab0777dbbc19c88d22fc543 SHA-256: 37895a4daabc46e2cac7530204b20d7d0412b19c3ef8ef1fab83faee7dc5d5ac
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains a malicious VBA macro, specifically a Document_Open macro, which is designed to execute code upon opening the document. The heuristic firings indicate the use of CreateObject and GetObject, common for launching payloads. While no specific IOCs like URLs or hashes were extracted, the presence of a critical ClamAV detection and the nature of the VBA auto-execution strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Ewtz-9765445-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Ewtz-9765445-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject 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
3534612e311adddbcf2e093d61bfa43aa100b688e0fa70d64062312eb6cd9cc9
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17155 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.