Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a411321e980832a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

377.0 KB Created: 1999-05-14 06:10:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0
MD5: c14c7141fb3f9c17a2a27e7307714afc SHA-1: d11e05b3f5b50134b59c3fb270fadd4feee69554 SHA-256: 4a411321e980832a0be3b286f5d909155cc8f3dd7d842b34a62d5d66d8299a5f
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell

The file contains VBA macros, and a critical heuristic indicates a Shell() call within the VBA code. This suggests the macro is designed to execute arbitrary commands. The presence of 'macros.bas' as an extracted artifact further supports this. The ClamAV detections indicate this is a known malicious document type. The shell execution likely downloads and runs a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 6

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • NOP-equivalent sled detected medium SC_NOP_EQUIV_SLED
    Long run of 0x40 bytes
  • 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
530a9b30602cc4d21fcc66fdb32617c19ec58fe54cfb15e0478ea5c7fb0f4511
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18845 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-1
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.