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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46d239d2bb9673a5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

160.8 KB Created: 2020-12-30 10:10:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f2e77c7dd9ba589ed71762ab7459e905 SHA-1: 692947b022060916608d2bb826b24f5d0af3d5a3 SHA-256: 46d239d2bb9673a53ed54e7e8db54331dc28f2b7bc15ba7088a3340bd13bde9e
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics indicate this is a malicious document downloader. The presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject strongly suggests it's designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. The obfuscated document body and the 'macros.bas' artifact further support the conclusion that this file's primary purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
663869ec393d0a50f151da4884835577fc196722b5e56686c64f3948abebb4bb
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6571 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.