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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a25ac885200eb52…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

28.5 KB Created: 1996-08-19 11:07:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 6.0
MD5: 456bc5910ff2d7128bc550d5be0ac4c7 SHA-1: 3a945039c820ed2f15a17af43e2628b64156b844 SHA-256: 7a25ac885200eb522022afe2c202eee960dc67d8da1b5faa8a68a45d01681535
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a malicious OLE document that contains an embedded OLE object with suspicious static findings, including a large slack region and unreadable streams. The document body discusses radar systems, likely as a lure to disguise the malicious embedded content. The embedded object is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 29,184 bytes but its declared streams total only 9,421 bytes — 19,763 bytes (68%) 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).
  • CFB header with no readable streams medium OLE_PARSE_EMPTY_STREAMS
    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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_off00001e40.ole
293145d55652a765fa1fd2bcfb17fbc8970722dea95f183b1d48d4ed3a3ebb89
embedded-office Embedded OLE/CFB Office body inside ole container at offset 0x1E40 21440 bytes