Win.Trojan.Puritan-1 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6904ed61821ba98e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

51.5 KB Created: 1997-03-23 18:39:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 5d5e41d3dbce75c4236ae5e0dc50d5ed SHA-1: 72aaf26ee92859bef9b4bde411adaf8a315732ba SHA-256: 6904ed61821ba98ef3dc68d254115d7a870a781addf25009d91fa9b00dc9a519
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Puritan-1 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file exhibits characteristics of a legacy WordBasic macro virus, specifically identified as 'RSN MACRO VIRUS Goat file' and detected by ClamAV as Win.Trojan.Puritan-1. The presence of legacy macro virus markers and the explicit mention of 'Puritan' within the document body suggest a known malware family. The document's content, including author information and the date 1997, points to an older, potentially self-propagating macro-based threat.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Puritan-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Puritan-1
  • 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.

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