MALICIOUS
260
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.002 Malicious File
T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
The presence of VBA macros, specifically an Auto_Close macro that utilizes Shell() and CreateObject calls, strongly indicates malicious intent. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Dropper.Agent-8626163-0' further confirms this. The Auto_Close macro likely executes code to download and run a second-stage payload, a common dropper behavior.
Heuristics 6
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Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELLShell() call in VBA
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ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-8626163-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-8626163-0
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Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSEAuto_Close macro
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CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJCreateObject call
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VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXECCompiled 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.
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VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROSDocument contains VBA macro code
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
macros.bas4378a7812f9ca6868a9f93ae2098a43e0e66ade6474e071e76036c24e2093b6e |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) | 546 bytes |
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