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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 393b0d0d995e75f7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

876.0 KB Created: 2012-09-21 09:56:09 Authoring application: Windows Installer
MD5: d21bf8f637917ab225fe53b4b4c24629 SHA-1: d86eba8ffae01832661bc9e939cbc4d7b59dccd1 SHA-256: 393b0d0d995e75f72e9ce0be7bc26313e9a712cced925a0e9ad69d799025abfa
300 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The sample is an Office document containing an embedded PE executable. Heuristics indicate the use of Windows API functions such as CreateProcess, ShellExecute, VirtualAlloc, WriteProcessMemory, LoadLibrary, and GetProcAddress, which are commonly used by malware to execute payloads or inject code. The presence of an embedded executable strongly suggests a downloader or dropper functionality.

Heuristics 7

  • Reference to WriteProcessMemory API critical SC_STR_WRITEPROCESSMEMORY
    Reference to WriteProcessMemory API
  • Embedded PE executable critical OLE_EMBEDDED_EXE
    MZ/PE header found inside document — possible embedded executable
  • Reference to CreateProcess API high SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS
    Reference to CreateProcess API
  • Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXEC
    Reference to ShellExecute API
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API
  • Reference to VirtualAlloc API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALALLOC
    Reference to VirtualAlloc API

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_00006000.exe
7d148ccc75d5b2879d9e0e911cdb15dd7ab171bd787731ed250b3c1765a99c65
embedded-pe Office MZ+PE at offset 0x6000 872448 bytes