Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 560f0dfee412399d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

20.0 KB Created: 2018-12-07 14:13:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 14.0000 First seen: 2019-04-18
MD5: c4f39991f2ef4e401ae4e59029abc248 SHA-1: 830b8a337cb5876a2a7fdbc03942d3c93af85cf1 SHA-256: 560f0dfee412399d708df01f58b2e9d74ada0dde1d4a2236794b3601f7d77479
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample utilizes DDE fields to execute a command that launches PowerShell. This PowerShell command is designed to download and execute a script from the URL http://192.168.171.186:9000/default.ps1. This technique is commonly used to deliver secondary payloads and bypass initial detection mechanisms.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.DDEautoexec-6346603-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.DDEautoexec-6346603-1
  • Field QUOTE with ASCII-integer command payload critical OOXML_FIELD_QUOTE_ASCII_PAYLOAD
    QUOTE field in word/document.xml carries a decimal-ASCII byte sequence that decodes to a shell command referencing \\System32\\cmd.exe
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • DDE field low OOXML_DDE
    DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) field found in word/document.xml. The command does not reference a known-dangerous executable, but DDE can be abused for code execution.
  • 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://192.168.171.186:9000/default.ps1 In macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvasIn 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/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)