Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 697b5664a5421aed…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

199.5 KB Created: 2017-12-22 18:13:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-11-20
MD5: 75002b0595c28f7ab7be166ffec79861 SHA-1: 0628dc642e1f0b6b09ea08873137ecff169a43a4 SHA-256: 697b5664a5421aedb40478edb365978eac6caa31890ab2b61c755c5f72907e9f
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious OLE document containing a VBA macro. The macro is flagged for executing a shell command via AutoOpen, indicating it's designed to run automatically when the document is opened. This behavior, combined with the ClamAV detection name 'Img.Dropper.PhishingLure', strongly suggests the document is a lure for phishing or malware delivery, likely downloading a secondary payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Img.Dropper.PhishingLure-6443153-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Img.Dropper.PhishingLure-6443153-0
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 204,288 bytes but its declared streams total only 89,815 bytes — 114,473 bytes (56%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • VBA project contains no executable statements low 1 related finding OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains a VBA project, but extracted modules only contain attributes/options/comments and no executable statements.
  • 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.
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.
  • 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 In 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) 286 bytes
SHA-256: 7771bf99b1125ee0f87040a7dc7c1fa89eec2186bbf4ab3e822c8d665693af47
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

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