Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6469ef1a9904749e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

15.0 KB Created: 1999-10-20 21:44:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 6.0.1 First seen: 2017-02-23
MD5: 41de426d450a7744a3b070529570ad98 SHA-1: ed8dc82f8d84b69bc85c5354cbdd705afa072b18 SHA-256: 6469ef1a9904749e52f98f4d6a540e56978a075f5aae2c7b4356cc14a71d55fe
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is detected as a malicious dropper by ClamAV. Static analysis revealed legacy WordBasic macro virus markers, indicating the presence of malicious code. The document body is a resume, likely used as a lure to trick the user into enabling macros, which would then execute the embedded malicious payload.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6618801-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6618801-0
  • 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.