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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 458acdf5e4f42250…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOC

394.0 KB Created: 2025-10-30 11:34:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 12.0000
MD5: 0625498925e982604b6894cd828bcd35 SHA-1: 4defba7f94399c349214a27147cd95dd1b32f4b5 SHA-256: 458acdf5e4f42250d95ee2dd701959f6a6c1a225e67a2a2f2b19b60c888e377e
82 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The sample exhibits characteristics of a malicious OOXML document, specifically remote template injection and the presence of an embedded OLE object. The embedded OLE object, identified as 'ooxml_oleobject_00.bin', is a strong indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a container for a secondary payload. The remote template injection URL is highly suspicious and is the primary indicator for potential payload delivery.

Heuristics 5

  • Remote template injection high OOXML_REMOTE_TEMPLATE
    Document references a remote template URL (https://kt.mrmd.com/S26QDk?&--------------------------------------023940239403289329423) — a common remote-template-injection vector used by Hancitor, Emotet and many phishing campaigns. Word can fetch and apply the remote template; macros in that template may execute depending on Office policy and trust state.
  • External relationship medium OOXML_EXTERNAL_REL
    External target in word/_rels/settings.xml.rels: https://kt.mrmd.com/S26QDk?&--------------------------------------023940239403289329423
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.
  • 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/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibili

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin
d0c1957f88743156489fd00311282025b9c840e3475e2e36ce3229d031f81f1d
ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 136192 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.50, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
ooxml_oleobject_01.bin
e30cd1e6dd930c167b020707b7a609bc65c4071a9a9230b64e6a5b6d8f6440d1
ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Office_Excel_97-2003_Worksheet1.xls 450560 bytes
emf_00.emf
a6bab15004b53654d496572967a1f354897fede7da992257ed5d72e5b8db1ece
ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image1.emf 40756 bytes
emf_01.emf
19aeb1fabb74228a417493a777a3bfcb0c459f5f6ea963a7f9e9398387ebf70e
ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image2.emf 1505804 bytes