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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 494dbeb12b8e0d94…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

857.5 KB Created: 2021-10-05 13:50:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 7335d2df54055b7855d8a9fb1ede65c5 SHA-1: b8dd9e275443aee2c7c960fb3177356844a50cae SHA-256: 494dbeb12b8e0d9426d2c63290401b1d2a9b4e9254ae51fa2c8a116a92dc96ba
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a Microsoft Word document containing a VBA macro that is triggered by the Document_Open event. The macro attempts to locate a file named 'zoro.kl' and execute it. It also appears to establish persistence by writing to the registry key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\IAccessible2Proxy. The macro is partially obfuscated, but its intent to download and execute a second-stage payload is clear. The password 'doyouknowthatthegodsofde' is also present in the script.

Heuristics 5

  • Office EPRINT stream contains EMF object high CVE related OLE_EPRINT_EMF_OBJECT
    OLE ObjectPool contains an EPRINT stream with EMF data. This is rare in normal documents and is CVE-2007-3893/MS07-046-family evidence when paired with Office exploit payload anomalies, but the malformed EMF record is not proven by this rule alone.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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 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/2006/encryption
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/keyEncryptor/password
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/keyEncryptor/certificate
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
4b4d165f838373d82956ea57a25034d84ac153ba8b2074181d6c5a1be9fa8daf
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 3750 bytes
ole10native_00.bin
2d00befb3e7c6aa3ff7ad34b4eeef23517e793cfd7f765501619ad77505abeae
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: ObjectPool/_1694918961/Ole10Native 238886 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.97, consistent with packed or encrypted content.