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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 435bd29b63544b01…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

257.8 KB Created: 2020-10-29 09:30:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 013c4ce10dc92632f0afa2128c8c186e SHA-1: c85221bff936d6139cc6f97f08ad9f4817817b7d SHA-256: 435bd29b63544b01f0aa17d2260f1b77f63cf256dbe4029d85ef0f8f9427348a
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics indicate this is a malicious document. Specifically, the presence of a Document_Open VBA macro that uses CreateObject and p-code auto-execution strongly suggests it's designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, though benign, is often a placeholder or part of the document's lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9785156-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9785156-0
  • 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
2c8aded1cc33908777d3554a19067d8f93ed6d8269cc13dcdcff33eca45ebd5f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18919 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.