Win.Trojan.Alex-7 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aaa188e49fcff5e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

30.5 KB Created: 1997-07-26 05:57:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: ac0e8cc406422cde93177417e786106b SHA-1: 89462789d80f5f50cd735e6fccb98d05d935b968 SHA-256: 8aaa188e49fcff5e4147d6671a25c6914bb278d1df5440a39023a7fb81d062dd
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Alex-7 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file exhibits legacy WordBasic macro virus markers, specifically 'TOOLSMACRO', and is identified by ClamAV as 'Win.Trojan.Alex-7'. The presence of these markers and the specific detection name strongly indicate a malicious macro-based payload. The document body contains numerous strings that appear to be related to macro execution and potentially obfuscated commands.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Alex-7 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Alex-7
  • Legacy WordBasic macro-virus markers high OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_MACRO_VIRUS
    OLE Word document contains legacy WordBasic auto-execution macro markers such as AutoOpen plus ToolsMacro/MacroFile/fileMacro/globMacro or named historical macro-virus strings. These old Word 6/95 macro forms are not exposed as a modern VBA project, so normal VBA source extraction can miss them.

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