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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d24ee917de8d274…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

196.0 KB Created: 2012-09-21 09:56:09 Authoring application: Windows Installer
MD5: fbe4f9482f2fede6408713f5b8e682c0 SHA-1: 34ae6e3e3c478536a4b6a6dfd06edca09e411630 SHA-256: 5d24ee917de8d274a6b8db618913f069744b6ee946a6a92a16aab30bd59be2d3
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a malicious Office document containing an embedded PE executable. Heuristics indicate the presence of APIs commonly used for process manipulation (CreateProcess, LoadLibrary, GetProcAddress) and a NOP sled, suggesting shellcode or exploit code. The embedded executable is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • Embedded PE executable critical OLE_EMBEDDED_EXE
    MZ/PE header found inside document — possible embedded executable
  • NOP sled detected high SC_NOP_SLED
    Found 20+ consecutive 0x90 bytes
  • Reference to CreateProcess API high SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS
    Reference to CreateProcess API
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_00006000.exe
8004b8f924d70b0d4cb11857056dcfcda4767d434b742cc95a2451a7146e3f0f
embedded-pe Office MZ+PE at offset 0x6000 176128 bytes