Win.Trojan.Nostradamus-2 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45a7037a2b08311a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

17.5 KB Created: 1996-12-03 22:47:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: d33b1ca7033949a4632de99ec6364364 SHA-1: 9cf2f6f9c355d44e13c46e120da4dd9d50bb34d2 SHA-256: 45a7037a2b08311a53b4f3951a190855bbcf69e79692231f87894152f597a7b8
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Nostradamus-2 · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified as a legacy WordBasic macro-based trojan, specifically 'Win.Trojan.Nostradamus-2'. It uses an 'AutoOpen' macro and a lure to prompt the user to enable macros, which is a common technique for initial execution. The macro attempts to infect the system by copying itself to the NORMAL.DOT template.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Nostradamus-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Nostradamus-2
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings

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