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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cf7a722e25af070…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOC

125.4 KB Created: 2024-10-04 06:47:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 14.0000
MD5: b0a8db858b9acdb70fe368d52141abc1 SHA-1: a4a7dd3070eed86cd4ee9a7bb3f2205a9453f038 SHA-256: 6cf7a722e25af0708bf294acf608cd055d24e8bf039617f4bbdcc31bb7736843
282 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an OOXML document containing a VBA project with a Document_Open macro. This macro utilizes the Shell() function, indicating an attempt to execute arbitrary commands. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Malware.Valyria-6714124-0' further confirms its malicious nature. The VBA code's primary function appears to be the execution of a secondary payload, although the exact nature of the payload is obfuscated within the script.

Heuristics 7

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-6714124-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Valyria-6714124-0
  • 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
  • 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 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.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • 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/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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
24e45389b5db782cc7c1ebfbffb085d4bf11d6b735556e7ea177ce9f3f8afb9a
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 104504 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
499e36ef12366dd1b6629fa097476f094f3ae49837b330ba1d9f27e0052205a7
vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 265728 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-6714124-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely