Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57544a65c706ace1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

36.5 KB Created: 2006-09-04 21:23:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 10.0
MD5: 6ae5c499d193784d5d5ba91674a51bb2 SHA-1: 28dab5353ee30c346ccc0d8b132037a93ac19b7f SHA-256: 57544a65c706ace142cbd55a4ebf9ea07af046da7a44886dbccd7195e422047e
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with critical severity heuristics. The presence of a Document_Open VBA macro indicates an attempt to automatically execute malicious code upon opening the document. The document body presents a template for analyzing creation myths, a common lure to trick users into enabling macros. No scripts were extracted, and no specific family could be identified.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-40 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Marker-40
  • 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
7e6f19581770b53ccac704a96342e3c281a934ceeb9a5cf836506786df16605b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 4236 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-2
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely