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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ff9891f4cfe8412…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOC

418.3 KB Created: 2022-01-10 12:37:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2022-04-09
MD5: bfc36f03b9752ca9d49ffb4d259129ad SHA-1: 0321fbe3b8a574b224c9dabdb69ca40369aa8dca SHA-256: 7ff9891f4cfe841233b1e0669c83de4938ce68ffae43afab51d0015c20515f7b
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The document contains an embedded OLE object with indicators for a payload, specifically noting an HTA file. This strongly suggests an attempt to exploit a vulnerability like CVE-2026-21514 to execute arbitrary code. The embedded OLE object and its native package are the primary indicators of this malicious behavior, likely leading to the execution of a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • OOXML Ole10Native with payload/link indicators — possible CVE-2026-21514 high CVE likely CVE_2026_21514
    Office document contains embedded OLE (word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin) with Ole10Native plus executable, PE, or risky remote-link indicators. This is a likely CVE-2026-21514 exploitation shape.
  • Ole10Native package drops an auto-executable payload critical OFFICE_PACKAGE_RISKY_FILE
    OLE Package displayName or fullPath ends in a directly auto-executable extension (a runnable binary or a script the default shell host runs on double-click). Embedding such a payload inside an Office document has no benign authoring use — it is a malware-delivery dropper.
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartex
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin
2c6a0c43e13abdc5da8ef74c577ad5f98db9c4dd8441d4836412f9011c5ca612
ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 687616 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 shell/COM execution token(s).
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin
f875c9ff3c7327d93f616fc0889713ee153c198de509b1764034d5f537c4948c
ole-package OOXML word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin Ole10Native stream: Ole10Native 679917 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 shell/COM execution token(s).
emf_00.emf
c6f6e8165a97c761855d718113c8312a6e90092ad0ac4109351ddc26a73e4e30
ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image2.emf 5440 bytes