Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78b034b3620da12b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

70.0 KB Created: 2008-08-15 04:43:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 10.1
MD5: 2b889eeb4a68f36f01d9b54a41e491b2 SHA-1: 1d21a8241595df6fe23e6611f1ab4b66951ec9a0 SHA-256: 78b034b3620da12bd49d33e067b46cafa86833942691e1f05d594f24388ca121
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro. This macro attempts to copy itself to the Normal template and any other open documents, indicating an effort to establish persistence. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Trojan.Thus-8' further supports its malicious nature. The macro's logic suggests it aims to ensure its execution whenever Word is opened.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
  • 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
148463b71af2433c061c528c6bb7ae214dfa6ef6dc4d157d2709c1351df19400
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2349 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely