Win.Trojan.Malaria-2 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 745e863bdb4a4919…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

16.0 KB Created: 1997-07-17 01:31:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: de480a5a4c7445a378067ba8b7cf3937 SHA-1: 283532ab574209054c098c3496c2dbf60de45b90 SHA-256: 745e863bdb4a49195b76dc5c620dc2e96250cb30feff1a6fec826d9836c4af12
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Malaria-2 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file exhibits characteristics of a legacy WordBasic macro virus, specifically identified by the 'TOOLSMACRO' marker. ClamAV detection confirms this as Win.Trojan.Malaria-2. The presence of legacy macro virus markers indicates the file is likely designed to execute malicious code, potentially for broader system compromise.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Malaria-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Malaria-2
  • Legacy WordBasic macro-virus markers high OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_MACRO_VIRUS
    OLE Word document contains legacy WordBasic auto-execution macro markers such as AutoOpen plus ToolsMacro/MacroFile/fileMacro/globMacro or named historical macro-virus strings. These old Word 6/95 macro forms are not exposed as a modern VBA project, so normal VBA source extraction can miss them.