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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44f39a68cf06e050…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

104.0 KB Created: 2007-09-18 04:34:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.
MD5: 1584a3b8392e1e7b7cc2e6eae17fd3bd SHA-1: e45f9cb7b73864f1ce7079d2de9110f9f0eb6beb SHA-256: 44f39a68cf06e050ec2ecc4159becb18dedae669438f1e23d1ea512e617c8d42
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The sample is a malicious OLE document with a large slack space anomaly, indicating potential obfuscation or embedded malicious content. Heuristics indicate PEB access, often used by malware to evade detection. The document body contains obfuscated VBA-like code that appears to reconstruct registry paths and potentially execute commands, specifically targeting 'HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Resiliency\DisabledItems'. This suggests an attempt to disable security features or establish persistence. The exact execution flow and final payload are not fully discernible due to the obfuscation and truncated nature of the extracted script.

Heuristics 3

  • PEB access via FS segment (x86) high SC_PEB_ACCESS
    PEB access via FS segment (x86)
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 106,496 bytes but its declared streams total only 16,486 bytes — 90,010 bytes (85%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • 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
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/bibliography
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/customXml