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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44fc387cc55c1a2b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

193.1 KB Created: 2020-09-18 12:16:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: cfade39607672eac80920030f2f8a554 SHA-1: 10f9f4ebeaa4b4428a7c1e1a45759c018f3efd75 SHA-256: 44fc387cc55c1a2b5fc409d86cef0344a9015e93f8bf7ec6f4095485281bbf88
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is a Microsoft Office document containing a critical OLE_VBA_MACROS heuristic firing, indicating the presence of VBA macros. The Document_Open macro and CreateObject call, along with VBA p-code auto-execution, strongly suggest that the macros are designed to run automatically when the document is opened. The ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.Generic' further supports the conclusion that this document is a downloader. The embedded URL, though benign, is noted. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging VBA macros to initiate a download of a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763532-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763532-0
  • 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
ba8241e4388725ade491e6e42da3e5f9cf169555b4f6e61ff9f624691af3445f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20213 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.