Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38f0d0859e00888c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

66.5 KB Created: 2010-01-28 14:48:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.5.0
MD5: 6fcefd871d60d7d745cbb666ef04df9f SHA-1: 9c6f9aa9da34d10f7856e0ef9d44e88b17f18519 SHA-256: 38f0d0859e00888cfaa6f72d9069c843a04a666b2eac74d3dc57d23aeaa8e46d
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains VBA macros, with one critical heuristic firing for the use of Shell() calls, indicating an attempt to execute external commands. The document body is crafted as a scholarship announcement, a common lure to trick users into enabling macros. The presence of embedded URLs, particularly the one related to 'dollarsforscholars.html', suggests a potential download or redirection vector. The ClamAV detections further confirm its malicious nature.

Heuristics 6

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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.pellacommunityfoundation.org/dollarsforscholars.html
    • http://www.iowacreditunions.com
    • http://www.admissions.grandview.edu
    • http://www.mediacomworldclass.com
    • http://www.rdblue.org
    • http://www.at15com
    • http://www.uni.edu/studentorgs/ama/competition.htm
    • http://www.bestbuy.com/scholarships
    • http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd
    • http://www.uni.edu/studentorgs/ama/competition.htmThe

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
cde0e69806a8bb3e953536c03a2be330831d7065cacc8d2c853d7a5ae256ed51		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6610 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-3
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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