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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5505b90064bed94d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

548.0 KB Created: 2020-06-23 10:46:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 46fb44acc4862a5f3c60b77153676efa SHA-1: b4ad77cf731f93a5b3cc59f152be8f39e752b99f SHA-256: 5505b90064bed94dfd3199e71b06f74aeed136f8a1ced57f65e604ba427016ac
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample contains VBA macros, including an AutoOpen macro, which is a common delivery mechanism for malicious documents. The embedded JavaScript obfuscates calls to `wscript.shell` and `CreateObject` to download and execute a DLL from the URLs `https://caranatrium.com/vertusa.dll` and `https://marutoba.com/frt.dll`. The `powers_to_conjecture` function appears to be a delay mechanism, likely to evade static analysis.

Heuristics 8

  • Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT
    Reference to Windows Script Host
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject 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
  • Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON
    Environ() call (env variable access)
  • 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 https://caranatrium.com/vertusa.dll
    • https://marutoba.com/frt.dll
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/bibliography
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/customXml

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7f8d34f08d2f715f3d8116e4bee976d7ef6b3e70d346f820819680fd7a4abeb6		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15121 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 62 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls. Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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