Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7532b48e482298b5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

25.5 KB Created: 1996-07-28 09:02:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 43cd9a1b6964fd74e42d10b09eeec2b7 SHA-1: 867d447f0baaa95035b0dcc89a41eb58bbab3f52 SHA-256: 7532b48e482298b5c35888d8611ad61808cc5862c7a09c6c81eac751ba6de6cd
304 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is a legacy WordBasic macro virus from 1997, designed to infect documents automatically upon opening and disable macro protection. It explicitly details its infection mechanisms, including disabling macro protection via the 'Tools Options' function and infecting documents via 'AutoOpen' and 'FileSaveAs' macros. The embedded URL and email address are likely related to its distribution or command and control.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Master-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Master-1
  • Embedded Office document has suspicious static findings critical EMBEDDED_OFFICE_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A CFB/OLE Office document was found inside another file type and its carved contents matched Office exploit or payload heuristics. This catches wrapped exploit documents where the top-level file routes to a PE, archive, or generic scanner instead of Office.
  • 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.
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    This finding applies to a carved embedded Office document found at a nonzero offset inside the submitted file, not directly to the top-level document. OLE file is 21,819 bytes but its declared streams total only 0 bytes — 21,819 bytes (100%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • CFB header with no readable streams medium OLE_PARSE_EMPTY_STREAMS
    This finding applies to a carved embedded Office document found at a nonzero offset inside the submitted file, not directly to the top-level document. The file begins with a valid OLE2/CFB header but exposes no directory streams. A non-empty compound document with an unreadable directory is anomalous — it is seen with truncated/corrupt files and, more importantly, with content deliberately shifted off byte boundaries to defeat parsers while the host application still recovers the object.
  • Recovered legacy WordBasic macro source info OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_MACRO_SOURCE
    The Word 6.0/95 document stores tokenised WordBasic macros in the WordDocument stream rather than as a modern VBA project, so VBA source extraction cannot see them. The macro source was detokenised and carved so its identifiers, string literals (file paths, URLs, registry keys, message text) and comments are available for review and signature scanning.
  • 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://???.????.??/?????/??????/(E-mail In document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
wordbasic_macros.txt wordbasic-macro analyzer.wordbasic (detokenised Word 6/95 WordBasic macro source) 258 bytes
SHA-256: 7d764025281ce696876dda97041ba246aab7687e2fc0e1de3e9a4a321ba06c14
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
+ @cmd001c @cmd001c = = , , 21349          
        357 "c) 1997 Master of infection...   QUEEN F"
      29472    
  19827 * ,   ,  
29797 ,         = 20339 @cmd7365     @cmd726f    
  @cmd6964 @cmd0173 = = = 0 = , =     = 2816 3840 @cmd6964 @cmd0073 = = = =
embedded_office_off000010c5.ole embedded-office Embedded OLE/CFB Office body inside ole container at offset 0x10C5 21819 bytes
SHA-256: f162f20ee84a3f2e5d6031e6465be8914cc42f01a8d38b0bc7736eb9a6b2da7f
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Master-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely