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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b44d9aa4abd608f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

76.5 KB Created: 2022-10-03 06:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2022-10-03
MD5: 5b112030e331fc27826d844da94384c1 SHA-1: 345f750a8d23419c626363783a5c97642bbd61c1 SHA-256: 3b44d9aa4abd608f2dd1ec103d734c6402d3cb751dc2f38a46dc682aaa05a6bb
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious OLE document containing VBA macros. The presence of AutoOpen and Auto_Open subroutines, along with a critical heuristic firing for Shell() calls in VBA, indicates that the macros are designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. The ClamAV detection name 'Xls.Malware.Valyria-10029786-0' further confirms its malicious nature and suggests a known malware variant. The script's primary function appears to be executing a command via Shell(), likely to download and run a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10029786-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10029786-0
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • Auto_Open macro high OLE_VBA_AUTO
    Auto_Open macro
  • 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.
  • 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
3bb6ed77f36d1e19414e04485b9174a0ac9a32564b6d209056dbd3753d0c716d
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 31454 bytes