Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54656d03d3e6c176…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

55.0 KB Created: 2018-05-24 21:44:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2019-04-18
MD5: a45400dfd552a2e0ec6626aa1b2627a3 SHA-1: 0c724bcd55174001ef1e0beebbe00b70a98dffa0 SHA-256: 54656d03d3e6c1768021370045346f03eaec0ee58bb1f9f65920e352595b356b
344 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is a malicious Office document that contains an embedded OLE object. It includes a lure to enable editing, which is a common tactic for macro-based malware. The embedded OLE package is identified as a script dropper that fetches and executes a payload from the URL http://google.com. This indicates an attempt to download and execute a secondary stage.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6557733-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6557733-0
  • Ole10Native package payload is a download-and-execute script critical OFFICE_PACKAGE_SCRIPT_DROPPER
    The OLE Package's embedded payload contains a script that hosts a shell (PowerShell/WScript/mshta), fetches a remote resource, and executes it — a download-and-run dropper. Embedding such a script inside an Office document via the Object Packager is a direct user-execution delivery technique (MITRE T1204.002), not a benign attachment.
  • Ole10Native package drops an auto-executable payload critical OFFICE_PACKAGE_RISKY_FILE
    OLE Package displayName or fullPath ends in a directly auto-executable extension (a runnable binary or a script the default shell host runs on double-click). Embedding such a payload inside an Office document has no benign authoring use — it is a malware-delivery dropper.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact critical 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.
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • Payload URL recovered from embedded OLE object (1 URL) info OOXML_EMBEDDED_OBJECT_URL
    An embedded OLE object (xl/word/ppt embeddings) carries a next-stage download URL in its Ole10Native/Package stream — stored literally (incl. UTF-16) or base64-encoded — which the package-level URL sweep does not see. Surfaced as an IOC; self-validating (only real payload hosts).
  • 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 In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://google.comEmbedded OLE package script

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 19456 bytes
SHA-256: d7a7760f70bd1dee841bc9fab5e61a83c6b117fea294b38e090063a6f1cf690e
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered URL(s): http://google.com Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): WScript.Shell'); Carved artifact contains 2 shell/COM execution token(s).
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin ole-package OOXML word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin Ole10Native stream: Ole10Native 15933 bytes
SHA-256: 1c63691a7ed23ef70c63fa3ddf94372319f1434cb92964f29b17932600357158
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered URL(s): http://google.com Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): WScript.Shell'); Carved artifact contains 2 shell/COM execution token(s).
ooxml_oleobject_01.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/oleObject2.bin 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 42cd64359785d1255413419b5f26163fc6e022e4034a0e6e72183365a1525f11
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6557733-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): WScript.Shell', Carved artifact contains 2 shell/COM execution token(s).
ooxml_oleobject_01_ole10native_00.bin ole-package OOXML word/embeddings/oleObject2.bin Ole10Native stream: Ole10Native 14128 bytes
SHA-256: 2ba5b45334a9fc5f70fa6bb3679e80a0e24cb1c51a6961688dbcbc13cffab903
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): WScript.Shell', Carved artifact contains 2 shell/COM execution token(s).
emf_00.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image4.emf 7380 bytes
SHA-256: b7b56c127898d14a0969e05d4d9e8ed25acb4c786275a83afb464949cc710ca8
emf_01.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image3.emf 7424 bytes
SHA-256: 629adde3a20a9447f9281fda8f512a4c541b4cb7986b220c10c3e0fbfbd0d74a