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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 503a0e2f91b23d62…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

62.0 KB Created: 2020-03-09 15:03:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: e5db423426e09cae1deb89a1c9f0a020 SHA-1: 5f58107f3668fa555b978656b9d184e93be8e0f1 SHA-256: 503a0e2f91b23d62d132afe73ea8ef7abb831876cdd79f5977430f681d5ca664
340 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1218.011 Signed Binary Proxy Execution: Rundll32 T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is a malicious DOC file containing VBA macros. The critical heuristic OLE_VBA_WMI_PROCESS_CREATE indicates that the Document_Open macro attempts to launch a process using WMI's Win32_Process.Create method. This is a common technique for executing arbitrary code, often used to download and run further malicious payloads. The presence of a Document_Open macro and the use of CreateObject/GetObject point to an auto-executing malicious script.

Heuristics 9

  • VBA WMI Win32_Process launcher critical OLE_VBA_WMI_PROCESS_CREATE
    VBA macro builds or references a WMI moniker for Win32_Process and invokes .Create to start a command. This is a high-confidence macro execution chain that often hides the WMI class name through string concatenation or helper functions.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Generickdz-7641643-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Generickdz-7641643-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject 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
  • 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.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
28ee6b9d34872a02fe9d2d76e37d0db2c44ae8e1121c01a063ebfc01ba124747
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 3113 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.