Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4094a33b4bbb0d8f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

74.0 KB Created: 2005-07-01 10:37:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 9.0 First seen: 2017-06-27
MD5: caed5705cd094959809815ba6542511f SHA-1: 709e931c4fe55c6418d81b7bd5f3e3c765a16db2 SHA-256: 4094a33b4bbb0d8ffc7f95dd9c72cf3e136433275c08f66efb67a549e67978bc
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is detected as a dropper by ClamAV, indicating it likely downloads and executes additional malware. Heuristics indicate the use of Windows API functions such as CreateProcess, LoadLibrary, and GetProcAddress, which are commonly used by droppers to load and run payloads. The document body discusses shell code, which could be a pretext for delivering malicious code.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.HexEncodedEXEHeader-9789587-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.HexEncodedEXEHeader-9789587-1
  • Reference to CreateProcess API high SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS
    Reference to CreateProcess 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
  • 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://www.blackhat.com In document text (OLE body)