Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 858ca5eee2cc675d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

109.5 KB Created: 2010-05-13 15:14:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 10.0
MD5: a940d64f09468df80d081477a4fac0ff SHA-1: c0d8a018b604ad94f3324f8d3db3f619190f4058 SHA-256: 858ca5eee2cc675d7cbfc41aa53b2976877d0db3b7d6af604afae0055d76ea07
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a Microsoft Word document containing VBA macros, specifically triggering AutoOpen and Auto_Close heuristics, indicating malicious intent. The document body presents insurance underwriting information, a common lure for social engineering. The presence of VBA macros and the ClamAV detections suggest the document is designed to execute malicious code, likely to download a secondary payload.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Class-37 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Class-37
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
eb46ad9af91a649042af9e28115d831b761a47d404163e4ed1849f95ff95b948
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 7382 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Class-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely