Win.Trojan.Talon-4 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 420e7e74ed93cee7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

32.5 KB Created: 1997-04-05 15:21:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 20f5e8ebb30fb05b0b6ab99cf8fdc634 SHA-1: 443452a82b6fae4ddfd12bcfe55287b5897e73f2 SHA-256: 420e7e74ed93cee70724be1b043c62612a4645e45c03fc16c968103357a63d21
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Talon-4 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file contains legacy WordBasic macro virus markers, specifically 'ToolsMacro', and is detected by ClamAV as Win.Trojan.Talon-4. The document body text explicitly states 'Your document Is Infected With The Macro Virus Talon 4' and 'Your document Has Just been Been Saved, I Hope You Know The Password!!!', indicating a social engineering lure. The presence of macro-related functions suggests the execution of Visual Basic code.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Talon-4 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Talon-4
  • Legacy WordBasic macro-virus markers high OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_MACRO_VIRUS
    OLE Word document contains legacy WordBasic auto-execution macro markers such as AutoOpen plus ToolsMacro/MacroFile/fileMacro/globMacro or named historical macro-virus strings. These old Word 6/95 macro forms are not exposed as a modern VBA project, so normal VBA source extraction can miss them.