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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52fa2def2b9e4189…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOC

144.2 KB Created: 2020-10-20 08:54:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000
MD5: 044d1d1ed44f646a4d0d215065015cf5 SHA-1: 21be5864186d35c7a95066a73a4b13ebdd7496bb SHA-256: 52fa2def2b9e4189b1aeb1f91d7d0165f3bb344b69c9c0bdd029ebccd95ad100
320 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a malicious OOXML document containing VBA macros, as indicated by multiple high and critical heuristic firings including OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN, OLE_VBA_SHELL, and OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ. ClamAV also detected the file as 'Doc.Macro.ICEID1020-9781212-0'. The presence of an AutoOpen macro combined with a Shell() call strongly suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. No specific family could be identified.

Heuristics 8

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Doc.Macro.ICEID1020-9781212-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.ICEID1020-9781212-0
  • 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.
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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 project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present
  • 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartex
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/ink
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3d
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cid
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
1f902aabe85ee22a1998dc5e523a3691b1bbd4dcfd3410663786f9f4b3bf70a7
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 14265 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
vbaProject_00.bin
d87f071d412789d4a73b2cbdb5cca02e61a3dad5188a3bfddb11ff7814ebb7b5
vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 50176 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Macro.ICEID1020-9781212-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.