Win.Trojan.Niknat-1 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cec780199613125…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

93.0 KB First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: c750f7afdb4334fb3d52565f7cbd4928 SHA-1: 8da40d0f3ea04bde4f377123eb084e464fa77662 SHA-256: 4cec780199613125961a5c22a2b44b64ed3ecf9991c180d0e35e5acdc27d053a
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Niknat-1 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The critical ClamAV detection explicitly names the family as Win.Trojan.Niknat-1. The presence of legacy WordBasic macro virus markers and the document body content referencing "RSN MACRO VIRUS Goat file" strongly indicate a macro-based threat. The file likely attempts to leverage WordBasic macros for malicious execution.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Niknat-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Niknat-1
  • Legacy WordBasic macro-virus markers high OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_MACRO_VIRUS
    OLE Word document contains legacy WordBasic auto-execution macro markers such as AutoOpen plus ToolsMacro/MacroFile/fileMacro/globMacro or named historical macro-virus strings. These old Word 6/95 macro forms are not exposed as a modern VBA project, so normal VBA source extraction can miss them.