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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43a263188928226e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

92.0 KB Created: 2017-06-01 17:12:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2022-04-15
MD5: 3f44f7070c2e944e01fc1687c4412574 SHA-1: c9db1ee29f3bf55a3980a83b37c61a9422410af6 SHA-256: 43a263188928226e26bb33107f33d548de8d8a77ed5796d1e9d31695843d2dc3
402 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is a Microsoft Office document containing VBA macros, specifically triggering AutoOpen and Document_Open events. Heuristics indicate the use of CreateObject and CallByName, common for executing downloaded payloads. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Downloader.Jaff-6329915-0' strongly suggests a downloader family. The extracted 'macros.bas' file is the primary artifact associated with this malicious behavior, likely responsible for fetching and running a secondary stage.

Heuristics 11

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Jaff-6329915-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Jaff-6329915-0
  • Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT
    Reference to Windows Script Host
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • CallByName call high OLE_VBA_CALLBYNAME
    CallByName 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
5d34e9d1f6397afd90e98fed7f8111f532a7f5aca11b838fe4f7477c77155ad4
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 11603 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.