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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d9a8390d59ffee3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .EXE

90.0 KB Created: 1998-07-16 22:16:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0
MD5: 1192e3fb3262cce4f700dd8ac2e2e466 SHA-1: 2f2d6b41f7fbe321ba6468a3e7d5ef31b6185a86 SHA-256: 5d9a8390d59ffee38f54ad69462b8a00c2567edd4cf7f543c51773f02381b488
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains VBA macros, including an AutoOpen macro, which is a common technique for malicious Office documents. The embedded URLs and document body content point to a lure involving criticism of America Online, likely to disguise the malicious intent. The VBA macro attempts to export a file to 'c:\Windows\TiebugA.sys', suggesting it acts as a dropper for a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Pivis-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Pivis-2
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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://www.aolsucks.org/service/
    • http://www.aolsucks.org/service/busy.html
    • http://www.aolsucks.org/service/email.html
    • http://www.aolsucks.org/service/web.html
    • http://www.aolsucks.org/censor/
    • http://www.aolsucks.org/webcens/
    • http://www.aolsucks.org/security/index.html
    • http://www.aolsucks.org/spam/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
a3d4bf5936c3d99a6a615c982e379f248c98fc661f80456e9405d0221b909465
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 52474 bytes