Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c441bd29d2547fd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

41.5 KB Created: 2010-08-31 15:10:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 10.1
MD5: ef273052b6a1b218e7e0b03f6cc4b8d7 SHA-1: ec7adffcd3c62ab949634d25c03104cfeb2e407a SHA-256: 3c441bd29d2547fd8b4c1493564e0e690c4d6417ba7f9baff5c684b133978563
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1559.002 Component Object Model Hijacking T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Trojan.Thus-5. Static analysis revealed a malicious Equation Editor OLE object and VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro, indicating an attempt to execute code upon opening. The document body presents as a calculus worksheet to deceive the user.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Contains Equation Editor object — related to CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploitation, but CLSID presence alone is not the malformed MTEF exploit primitive.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-5 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Thus-5
  • 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.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
bf650797b00819a83809489545675120fbf46357fe98ad78f8266dea4b646eed
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2358 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-5
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely