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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6eb29c273c0a5b52…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOC

127.0 KB Created: 2020-09-11 11:04:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000
MD5: 02b4f168dcef0a354f6825a203368970 SHA-1: 653c8a61f6f586392f45a9a2b2c7348e608cbf68 SHA-256: 6eb29c273c0a5b5275cd81040d4a28dc91e15d01fce392da9de4064a3147a59a
322 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This OOXML document contains VBA macros, including an AutoOpen macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The macros utilize WScript.Shell and the Shell() function, suggesting an attempt to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection further supports the classification as a downloader.

Heuristics 8

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • WScript.Shell usage critical OLE_VBA_WSCRIPT
    WScript.Shell usage
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.SVCReady-8f5af0a5f0da7070-9951542-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.SVCReady-8f5af0a5f0da7070-9951542-0
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject 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 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7639fb82c0de7bb896b68f998fd68ef4f9f14c69c7e26de161172b195436b02b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 12602 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
e5ac7c7a99c720274d5c7d39bd32db9df18c6577e06a0cee6b89c75f4a60a70f
vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 45056 bytes