MALICIOUS
182
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic
T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
The sample is a malicious OLE document containing a VBA macro that executes upon opening. The macro attempts to ensure its persistence by modifying the NormalTemplate and other open documents, and includes logic that suggests it may download additional content. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Trojan.Thus-8' further supports its malicious nature. The presence of an unknown reputation URL also warrants attention.
Heuristics 5
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ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
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ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAVClamAV 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.
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Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPENDocument_Open macro
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VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROSDocument contains VBA macro code
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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://www.cre8ng.com
- http://pubs.acs.org/ci/about.html
- http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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macros.basa5c6a312d435fbe0dbbdb44a7eb4b8ca28801dadc0b47266138cf2d5f32abe40 |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) | 2364 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
Obfuscation or payload:
unlikely
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