Win.Trojan.UglyKid-2 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 563a59d9461254c0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

17.5 KB Created: 1997-04-19 12:54:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2015-09-18
MD5: 2b44d1a6c5e154138d0acef57ac93820 SHA-1: 062ba8755243d7732a0194cb9a194e2112678ca4 SHA-256: 563a59d9461254c0b8ef19cb67388e9a1e0073dc666e3a0a0f8fad66ad66c1c9
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.UglyKid-2 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is identified as a legacy WordBasic macro virus, specifically Win.Trojan.UglyKid-2. The embedded macro code, including the AutoOpen subroutine, is designed to infect other documents and potentially spread. It also contains markers commonly associated with legacy macro viruses.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.UglyKid-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.UglyKid-2
  • Legacy WordBasic macro-virus markers high OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_MACRO_VIRUS
    OLE Word document contains legacy WordBasic auto-execution macro markers such as AutoOpen plus ToolsMacro/MacroFile/fileMacro/globMacro or named historical macro-virus strings. These old Word 6/95 macro forms are not exposed as a modern VBA project, so normal VBA source extraction can miss them.