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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89fe0c5750beed5a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

183.2 KB Created: 2020-12-23 07:47:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f764b9849ea0e2fcf822cf5c263a3247 SHA-1: 241f8130775402fae38de042987cecdf2edc559e SHA-256: 89fe0c5750beed5a74ad61b1d619b667063c08e7329981c84c075804b5285182
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a Document_Open macro suggests an attempt to automatically execute code upon opening the document. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains patterns that resemble obfuscated JavaScript or VBA, further supporting the automated execution of malicious code. The primary function appears to be downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject 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
d5578521430d19d3e1a741e6facd5db8ed236e25c6fc3d692889ddd7a6d225bf
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8783 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.