Jaff — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 848a1e0b5838e497…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

92.0 KB Created: 2017-06-01 17:12:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2022-04-11
MD5: 4d97dd29edec102b5377c7758d7be3b0 SHA-1: ddd6e51ace790f8217ac74a6788214fdec977807 SHA-256: 848a1e0b5838e497a223366c10e2cf13fb35eb61bd3f3eadfc4c2f1f587218be
402 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Jaff · confidence 95%

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Downloader.Jaff-6329915-0, indicating it belongs to the Jaff family. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macros, specifically an AutoOpen macro that references Windows Script Host and uses CreateObject and GetObject calls. The VBA script appears to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common characteristic of Jaff droppers.

Heuristics 11

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Jaff-6329915-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Jaff-6329915-0
  • Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT
    Reference to Windows Script Host
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • CallByName call high OLE_VBA_CALLBYNAME
    CallByName 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
51e92178b91e219dd66f045c3d322a7720241b45b2cf94e7dd6d823d85b5a793
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 11609 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.