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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ed767510e9b2630…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

259.4 KB Created: 2020-10-29 09:30:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 806395d928d64130e7278e5f81b6de61 SHA-1: 28bb9a94c0dad6492efd1aa9a1b6370d92eb68af SHA-256: 5ed767510e9b2630ac3c6ea38470821c0c85acaf712cb5f45eddd5f6e0fcdc17
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The file is a Microsoft Word document containing obfuscated VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro. The ClamAV heuristic identifies it as a downloader. The VBA script appears to be heavily obfuscated, but its structure and the presence of CreateObject calls suggest it is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from a remote source. The embedded URL was confirmed benign, but the macro's intent is clear.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9785156-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9785156-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled VBA/cache stream contains an auto-execution token together with shell/download/object-execution tokens. This catches p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where visible source is unavailable.
  • 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://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
2c8aded1cc33908777d3554a19067d8f93ed6d8269cc13dcdcff33eca45ebd5f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18919 bytes