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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a8159b941c85f6c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

167.9 KB Created: 2020-09-14 13:44:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 3b4ac5642403ea68b48ae5338f8a43c3 SHA-1: 483ff5c4521cd4ccad39e96ac7c0c99afd972a59 SHA-256: 8a8159b941c85f6cb9da7bd9276842ebb297ef2d5b0c82269cce9174704af787
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject, indicating an attempt to execute code upon opening. The ClamAV heuristic also flags it as a downloader. While no specific download URL was extracted, the presence of these indicators strongly suggests the macro's purpose is to fetch and run a secondary malicious payload. The document body is heavily corrupted and unreadable, providing no further context.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9759988-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9759988-0
  • 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
f8f05dcf3e3edc2b86aaf635a586a86b3be75873e300dc406d21a4e9dd6169c2
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 22670 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.