Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 614d5ce15e02e8c0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

175.0 KB Created: 2020-02-27 17:49:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2020-06-01
MD5: c0bcccf098ee4446db9302d912a75687 SHA-1: 86e796431cf1ab27a2010fc412783d6cd49339a5 SHA-256: 614d5ce15e02e8c093611690a689d350a177850a587eecf6c7cb982ecb092c88
284 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros. The document body explicitly prompts the user to 'Enable editing' and 'Enable content', a common social engineering tactic to bypass macro security. The VBA code includes obfuscation techniques, such as splitting keywords like 'MSXML2', and uses the 'Document_Open' auto-execution macro to run code that likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload. The presence of 'CreateObject' and 'Shell' execution further indicates malicious intent.

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-7611638-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-7611638-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 4 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Dangerous API name reassembled from split string literals critical OLE_VBA_SPLIT_KEYWORD_OBFUSCATION
    VBA concatenates short string literals that reassemble a dangerous API/ProgID/LOLBin name (e.g. Scripting.FileSystemObject, WScript.Shell, powershell, URLDownloadToFile) which appears in no single literal. Splitting an API name across string concatenation is done only to evade keyword scanning.
  • 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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Techniques/RunTime_Debug_Tracing/VB6_Tracer_Utility_zip_cStringBuilder_cls.asp In document text (OLE body)
    • https://github.com/VBA-tools/VBA-JSON/pull/82In document text (OLE body)
    • https://github.com/VBA-tools/VBA-UtcConverterIn document text (OLE body)
    • http://�www.vba�In document text (OLE body)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In document text (OLE body)
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In document text (OLE body)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In document text (OLE body)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef#In document text (OLE body)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/mainIn document text (OLE body)
    • http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269370In document text (OLE body)
    • http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txtIn document text (OLE body)
    • https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/272138In document text (OLE body)
    • http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)�In document text (OLE body)
    • http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.phpIn 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) 181454 bytes
SHA-256: eb7255503fa245e547391953d0ab8cea4a280a4ea34b0a41d2608781e3cfe003
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
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
#If Win64 Then
Private Declare PtrSafe Function WideCharToMultiByte Lib "kernel32" (ByVal codePage As LongPtr, ByVal dwFlags As LongPtr, ByVal lpWideCharStr As LongPtr, ByVal cchWideChar As LongPtr, lpMultiByteStr As Any, ByVal cchMultiByte As LongPtr, ByVal lpDefaultChar As LongPtr, ByVal lpUsedDefaultChar As LongPtr) As LongPtr
Private Declare PtrSafe Function MultiByteToWideChar Lib "kernel32" (ByVal codePage As LongPtr, ByVal dwFlags As LongPtr, lpMultiByteStr As Any, ByVal cchMultiByte As LongPtr, ByVal lpWideCharStr As LongPtr, ByVal cchWideChar As LongPtr) As Long
#Else
Private Declare Function WideCharToMultiByte Lib "kernel32" (ByVal codePage As Long, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal lpWideCharStr As Long, ByVal cchWideChar As Long, lpMultiByteStr As Any, ByVal cchMultiByte As Long, ByVal lpDefaultChar As Long, ByVal lpUsedDefaultChar As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function MultiByteToWideChar Lib "kernel32" (ByVal codePage As Long, ByVal dwFlags As Long, lpMultiByteStr As Any, ByVal cchMultiByte As Long, ByVal lpWideCharStr As Long, ByVal cchWideChar As Long) As Long

#End If



 Dim BhyeKo As Variant
 Dim GreFvcAc As Variant
 Dim Gteres As Variant

Public Function ParseJson(ByVal JsonString As String) As Object
    Dim json_Index As Long
    json_Index = 1

    ' Remove vbCr, vbLf, and vbTab from json_String
    JsonString = VBA.Replace(VBA.Replace(VBA.Replace(JsonString, VBA.vbCr, ""), VBA.vbLf, ""), VBA.vbTab, "")

    json_SkipSpaces JsonString, json_Index
    Select Case VBA.Mid$(JsonString, json_Index, 1)
    Case "{"
        Set ParseJson = json_ParseObject(JsonString, json_Index)
    Case "["
        Set ParseJson = json_ParseArray(JsonString, json_Index)
    Case Else
        ' Error: Invalid JSON string
        Err.Raise 10001, "JSONConverter", json_ParseErrorMessage(JsonString, json_Index, "Expecting '{' or '['")
    End Select
End Function

''
' Convert object (Dictionary/Collection/Array) to JSON
'
' @method ConvertToJson
' @param {Variant} JsonValue (Dictionary, Collection, or Array)
' @param {Integer|String} Whitespace "Pretty" print json with given number of spaces per indentation (Integer) or given string
' @return {String}
''
Public Function ConvertToJson(ByVal JsonValue As Variant, Optional ByVal Whitespace As Variant, Optional ByVal json_CurrentIndentation As Long = 0) As String
    Dim json_Buffer As String
    Dim json_BufferPosition As Long
    Dim json_BufferLength As Long
    Dim json_Index As Long
    Dim json_LBound As Long
    Dim json_UBound As Long
    Dim json_IsFirstItem As Boolean
    Dim json_Index2D As Long
    Dim json_LBound2D As Long
    Dim json_UBound2D As Long
    Dim json_IsFirstItem2D As Boolean
    Dim json_Key As Variant
    Dim json_Value As Variant
    Dim json_DateStr As String
    Dim json_Converted As String
    Dim json_SkipItem As Boolean
    Dim json_PrettyPrint As Boolean
    Dim json_Indentation As String
    Dim json_InnerIndentation As String

    json_LBound = -1
    json_UBound = -1
    json_IsFirstItem = True
    json_LBound2D = -1
    json_UBound2D = -1
    json_IsFirstItem2D = True
    json_PrettyPrint = Not IsMissing(Whitespace)

    Select Case VBA.VarType(JsonValue)
    Case VBA.vbNull
        ConvertToJson = "null"
    Case VBA.vbDate
        ' Date
        json_DateStr = ConvertToIso(VBA.CDate(JsonValue))

        ConvertToJson = """" & json_DateStr & """"
    Case VBA.vbString
        ' String (or large number encoded as string)
        If Not JsonOptions.UseDoubleForLargeNumbers And json_StringIsLargeNumber(JsonValue) Then
            ConvertToJson = JsonValue
        Else
            ConvertToJson = """" & json_Encode(JsonValue) & """"
        End If
    Case VBA.vbBoolean
      
... (truncated)

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