Malicious Office (OOXML) / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 690daa52903a850f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOC

534.7 KB Created: 2020-06-18 13:01:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000
MD5: 2264a93283dd26f07b60025331e66d9a SHA-1: c946b233a7919777fffc63078a6939e6cb893138 SHA-256: 690daa52903a850f4c9f781060e484407dd0e8223058b60afb869102730a2e9c
402 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample contains a VBA macro with a Document_Open auto-execution trigger. This macro utilizes GetObject and CreateObject to interact with WMI, specifically targeting Win32_Process to create a new process. The use of obfuscation, such as reassembling API names from split string literals like 'winmgmts', indicates malicious intent to download and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Downloader.Sagent-9376492-0' further supports this assessment.

Heuristics 10

  • VBA WMI Win32_Process launcher critical OLE_VBA_WMI_PROCESS_CREATE
    VBA macro builds or references a WMI moniker for Win32_Process and invokes .Create to start a command. This is a high-confidence macro execution chain that often hides the WMI class name through string concatenation or helper functions.
  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Sagent-9376492-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Sagent-9376492-0
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject 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 project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartex
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/ink
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3d
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cid
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
048e280b51bfe508d4699e2cf8f03f9835b53d8ad795d4817ad242c7a6a6a399
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 3282 bytes
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin
d88cf522597fceef7fc44211d55238d570b2fe5a664c0fab6e84e5abb372b086
ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/Microsoft_Word_Document.docx 249115 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
bb725852c1bed7bd50a457113774ba76050793959eac7b14f63172a30968779a
vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 13824 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Sagent-9376492-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
emf_00.emf
30027345978be1067f7d9230a46a965a8856c91d628e47309e20045bc379dd74
ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image1.emf 1271480 bytes