Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48f1f16f7388fbdf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

58.5 KB Created: 2010-03-24 19:07:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 10.0
MD5: a9365d6eee22824a82e9315a3281544e SHA-1: a24c1210da7e80ef4af07362d838c4f449f2663f SHA-256: 48f1f16f7388fbdf4154ea905de0b5e3a3bdcc1074f25d9923be547e25adeefa
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with multiple critical heuristic firings indicating the presence of VBA macros. The 'Document_Open' macro is specifically flagged, suggesting it executes upon opening the document. While no specific URLs or further script details were extracted, the presence of a VBA macro within an Office document strongly suggests an attack pattern involving macro-enabled execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The document body content appears benign, indicating the malicious functionality is solely within the macros.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-40 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Marker-40
  • 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.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
f3081497ad7645096f17cd16d171edd1e5dc56ef3e26c89fd952681bec81b4d1
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 4286 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-2
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely