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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b2741d8a1eefed9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

180.3 KB Created: 2020-09-18 08:59:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 149f0e2ba5acf0113533ce601a2895c4 SHA-1: 69dbcbc940d4ce11a8d1fd0f68bfeb53c59e5dd1 SHA-256: 7b2741d8a1eefed939245c6e4fa381d3c3e0a2279397d4fb05f9f99c67a140f8
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that is triggered automatically upon opening the document. This macro utilizes CreateObject, indicating it's designed to execute code. The ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.Generic' strongly suggests the macro's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URL, though benign, is noted as a potential indicator. The document body is heavily corrupted and unreadable, providing no further context.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763419-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763419-0
  • 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
2cacffa870bc163e0d80063dbad890b2628b581c624e40730ba57a6c44f2b3d2
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20834 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.