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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45397b94d776a372…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

176.0 KB Created: 2020-09-28 21:56:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: b91daee3a636aa5809b328bcf90ed5c5 SHA-1: 6e500b8ee479feeeef8c4d2c84f9f8e7d7caa2a1 SHA-256: 45397b94d776a37290f1bc5d37f73758d17185070342f0186eb8aa5b031d8e12
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, indicating an attempt to execute code automatically when the document is opened. This is further supported by the ClamAV detection of 'Doc.Malware.Generic-9769001-0'. The macro's purpose is likely to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common technique for malware delivery. The document body content is obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing text, so the rationale is based on the macro execution and heuristic findings.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Generic-9769001-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Generic-9769001-0
  • 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
fe19635e7383e285d173bce1f5bbd9867258f7974e3830e10aecb187a337391c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6691 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.