Doc.Trojan.Xaler-1 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e312cb726507620…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

189.0 KB Created: 2010-04-27 06:25:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0
MD5: ff1e078dec1829102c1d183b150c3c32 SHA-1: eb516477e945e0dcc937cfc8728bfc2420d99422 SHA-256: 4e312cb726507620f32622375c5caeb1d1ee30c788ac73f8c335e0f0ccc09068
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Doc.Trojan.Xaler-1 · confidence 95%

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Trojan.Xaler-1. Static analysis detected a Document_Open VBA macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. The extracted artifact 'macros.bas' further confirms the presence of VBA macros, likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Xaler-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Xaler-1
  • 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
  • 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
c03ec2bb80fab5ae32108677b4ebfad5769a49d8b6ca353329e3284580c44bdf
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 242279 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Xaler-1
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 10 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls.