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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7997dc297f9c7f2d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

166.0 KB Created: 2021-01-21 07:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 88e910d833a9f5599082ccf622d861af SHA-1: 6b00de3feee0fe155365e47b45f7a3784c6d17d2 SHA-256: 7997dc297f9c7f2d47c512632eb6df6b7e4cbb7774fae3dce66b7308d735ddbb
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains a VBA macro that executes upon opening the document, indicated by the Document_Open heuristic. This macro utilizes CreateObject, a common technique for launching malicious payloads. The obfuscated document body text suggests an attempt to disguise the malicious nature of the file. The macro likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 6

  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled VBA/cache stream contains an auto-execution token together with shell/download/object-execution tokens. This catches p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where visible source is unavailable.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
6045f5f72d49d60894b3d01b2731b9077c6720a2a0e4c882459553248494ff30
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 14993 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.