Win.Trojan.Hawk-1 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77be4c74e3235225…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

7.5 KB First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: a997b9a8587694d9d95ca8cf57bbfda6 SHA-1: a37f5c30aae4b7a08d28896bb906e391b7c63bbb SHA-256: 77be4c74e32352252ef6d4968cc6feb6aaee56c1112b2ba8fe8c4ea90d46b1da
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Hawk-1 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample was detected as Win.Trojan.Hawk-1 by ClamAV and exhibits legacy WordBasic macro virus markers. The document body contains text indicating it is a 'RSN MACRO VIRUS Goat file' and includes AutoOpen and FileOpen macro names, suggesting it attempts to execute malicious code upon opening or saving.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Hawk-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Hawk-1
  • 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.