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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42799f210ad55072…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

38.0 KB Created: 2020-05-15 00:06:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: b3a6b71f6487129f841174374805e5f5 SHA-1: 96187d7e740824bc209d97563821ed8821eb8265 SHA-256: 42799f210ad55072ce21578efc4c8d58dc7083ae275de1c3ba11eb835adcd9e4
208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1218.005 System Binary Proxy Execution: Mshta

The sample is a malicious OLE document containing VBA macros. Heuristics indicate the use of 'certutil' for downloading and decoding, and the presence of a 'macros.bas' file suggests a dropper functionality. The VBA macros likely execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'CreateObject' and 'certutil' firings.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-9752075-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-9752075-0
  • Reference to certutil (download/decode) high SC_STR_CERTUTIL
    Reference to certutil (download/decode)
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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
  • Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON
    Environ() call (env variable access)
  • 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
363c02b05386212cd5d7fafa4ad352a44999ab068e5be2c60e461314bd4d6604
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1524 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.