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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b6c16691c408fca…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .EXE

38.5 KB Created: 1999-10-13 14:50:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0
MD5: 53fd38faa3f5cdb57eb2397bd41c91cd SHA-1: 119b52433121aa1e70374a4b0291c8669df8ad8b SHA-256: 4b6c16691c408fcada734110e560e399d201f0da364af9e8c814bad71468d270
360 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes Shell() and CreateObject() calls. This indicates an attempt to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. ClamAV detections for 'Win.Trojan.Psycho-3' and 'Win.Trojan.wmvg-1' on an extracted artifact further support its malicious nature. The document body content appears to be unrelated filler text.

Heuristics 8

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Psycho-3 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Psycho-3
  • 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
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
baec2bc1fced7f8146bd357f2049311ff23ef3cb15001483e99d99d422ce8eaa		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 14205 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Trojan.wmvg-1
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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