Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 530875900570b3c1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

53.0 KB Created: 2000-06-09 20:21:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0
MD5: cff611bbf7c3880c94def25cf1b914e9 SHA-1: a77c4431d11ff0d65f51059cd3551444eb06933b SHA-256: 530875900570b3c1af0a91d1af8532ceef4191c80bdd4b260d769f5fc7d900d4
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Trojan.Locale-1'. It contains VBA macros, specifically a 'Document_Open' macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. The document body presents as an academic proposal, suggesting a social engineering lure to encourage macro execution. No specific malware family could be confidently identified.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Locale-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Locale-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
  • 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
35214cdc9df7efac6e031112ee3c17bde37377012ded8178c58f17fcb2660eb9		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1612 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Locale-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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