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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 467cff3339922c52…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

194.5 KB Created: 2020-10-22 20:29:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f95394b0245bbca717498e4a8f4305f7 SHA-1: 60c0882a08a2b43395d131ead9ef7947b619ee4d SHA-256: 467cff3339922c5222b7cf47bc2ed154aa32c672291b072854671117da5ee6fd
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample contains a VBA macro that is automatically executed upon opening the document, as indicated by the Document_Open and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC heuristics. This macro is designed to create objects and execute code, a common technique for downloading and executing further stages of malware. The ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0' further supports this. No specific family could be identified, but the behavior points to a downloader.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0
  • 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
9ca879422c3203043eb02bf7332bfccca42d062c85606acaa47b14db718d1f57
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 22796 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.