Doc.Trojan.Panther-2 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74154f7ed1369070…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

28.0 KB Created: 2004-11-16 15:08:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 10.1
MD5: f1fec499562fa25b890f41d57f3712f3 SHA-1: 4a2dabc11ed8d63a95437c0d1db6fb67ef546150 SHA-256: 74154f7ed136907071dcdfea6c4848b900afad9dd29cd9463dda0704d97b0e59
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Doc.Trojan.Panther-2 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Trojan.Panther-2. It contains a Document_Open VBA macro that modifies the Normal template. The macro's logic appears to establish persistence by altering startup configurations, likely to ensure the malicious payload executes on system startup.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Panther-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Panther-2
  • 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 macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
b131971159e62d3b6f3841d7af8c8497e4c3172511bc9d2e904b055f0b39e481		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1589 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Panther-2
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.