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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78219f820321427d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

322.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:42:00 First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 09e8460dd13d84399e7b509fd6493b2a SHA-1: abb72a260579d902757a28253453446cf73314a9 SHA-256: 78219f820321427d74c695c7718f02d147ecd691f0234f97cf476b88f5a08ad9
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample contains a VBA macro that is triggered by the Document_Open event. This macro appears to be designed to copy embedded content, potentially a malicious executable, to a specific location and then open it. The macro also attempts to set the VBAWarnings registry key to 1, which could disable macro security warnings for future documents. The presence of the '2281337' password for opening a document suggests a potential attempt to disguise or protect a malicious payload.

Heuristics 5

  • Office EPRINT stream contains EMF object high CVE related OLE_EPRINT_EMF_OBJECT
    OLE ObjectPool contains an EPRINT stream with EMF data. This is rare in normal documents and is CVE-2007-3893/MS07-046-family evidence when paired with Office exploit payload anomalies, but the malformed EMF record is not proven by this rule alone.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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/2006/encryption
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/keyEncryptor/password
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/keyEncryptor/certificate
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
c5eb4757ddca02546c29b8bb7ebe1e28259400c86649771c5092c092ea3df037
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2971 bytes
ole10native_00.bin
1301ad2f56cb05e2e1d6e9246ec99a39f774b5cfe88be5d724e731284ad0b934
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: ObjectPool/_1693260807/Ole10Native 156481 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.95, consistent with packed or encrypted content.