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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 807ae0df3ec8455f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

87.2 KB
MD5: 0890bb39965b1007390c179a91c746e5 SHA-1: d8f074893054deeee451e6c005b342807c9ad239 SHA-256: 807ae0df3ec8455f90dafd7835e191a4de5979c70f1a30b912278809b8a9dd17
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains a VBA macro that executes upon opening the document. This macro writes content to 'c:\programdata\bordercurr.hta' and then executes it using cmd.exe. This indicates a downloader or dropper functionality, aiming to execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 6

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • 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.microsoft.com/aml/2001/core
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartex
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/auxHint
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml/sp2
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/schemaLibrary/2003/core

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7800464432c4bb5dbc108b75027dd80b3c05db2f8c8f54b5e5fea9821750ef25
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 869 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.