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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ccc7924b26f56e9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

164.3 KB Created: 2020-12-29 08:56:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f63db1c7530ccea98f2ebcddddddd0cd SHA-1: 36368fe3df17e51946b22685800d0daf3b5bd1b3 SHA-256: 3ccc7924b26f56e9c8c1b2cef447578f07d12c395ed8920f534697456a4f0a13
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The critical ClamAV detection and high heuristic scores for VBA execution and CreateObject calls further support this. The obfuscated document body suggests an attempt to conceal the malicious nature of the document. The primary function appears to be downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as indicated by the VBA auto-execution and CreateObject heuristics.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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.
  • 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://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
3e142f8f1ec045a49f005a6e1f22483ffd9a4a3fba2276e438481e79de80b3fc
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8366 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.