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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4676aac7b028652a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOC

186.7 KB Created: 2022-06-08 06:48:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2022-07-07
MD5: bae7ddf0b3baa26641bf8fbb6bc047d7 SHA-1: 70f03a3285bf3f07a870f432f2a7bf5926049072 SHA-256: 4676aac7b028652add3b3039a7e1bebd425256f845d868c74809cbb8da78e869
282 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Visual Basic

The sample is a malicious OOXML document containing an embedded OLE object that carries a VBA macro. This macro is configured to download and execute a second-stage payload from the URL https://www.mediafire.com/file/au4vgvrfmmfj7ka/23.htm/file. ClamAV also detected the embedded artifact as Xls.Malware.Valyria-10002968-0, indicating a known malware signature. The external relationship heuristic further suggests the document is attempting to load external content.

Heuristics 7

  • Embedded Office object carries macros critical OFFICE_EMBEDDED_MACRO_OBJECT
    This document embeds a second Office file that itself contains a VBA macro project or an Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet. Hiding a macro-bearing workbook or document inside another document — frequently under an obfuscated, non-standard part name — is a macro-smuggling technique that defeats scanners which only inspect the outer document's macro storage. No benign authoring workflow stages a hidden macro project this way.
  • ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10002968-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10002968-0
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • External relationship high OOXML_EXTERNAL_REL
    External target in word/_rels/settings.xml.rels: file:///C:\Users\Profex\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\16.0\DTS\en-US{C4A2B132-8482-49BE-ABF6-61BF4311DF3C}\{00F06CAE-26
  • 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.
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • 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 https://www.mediafire.com/file/au4vgvrfmmfj7ka/23.htm/file
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartex
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/ink
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3d
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2019/extlst
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cid
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2020/wordml/sdtdatahash
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin
28b9c2dc30ff9b5f7a4f8bc6daba540dbeeb28351e3f826b9388a45458e02bfc
ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Excel_97-2003_Worksheet1.xls 41472 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10002968-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
emf_00.emf
ec74c1ac1cdf6264c476a64da7a349acdaadbdea7d19cb054ce3684213b97dc7
ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image2.emf 4156 bytes