Ursnif — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c19528ed237067f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

83.5 KB Created: 2021-11-09 22:39:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 4bf987800ff8ab9d95f2438510c91685 SHA-1: 29a0d89344d8496b5d9557a35b9b529f96383f37 SHA-256: 8c19528ed237067fe58161fb601fdfbf29a6cc90bd2842a6315966d5ca76f956
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Ursnif · confidence 95%

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

The file is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros, specifically an AutoOpen macro that utilizes a Shell() call. The document body lures the user to 'Enable Content' by promising free cryptocurrency, a common social engineering tactic. The presence of an AutoOpen macro combined with a Shell() call strongly suggests the execution of a second-stage payload. ClamAV detection confirms this as Doc.Dropper.Ursnif-6864686-0, indicating the Ursnif banking trojan family.

Heuristics 8

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Ursnif-6864686-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Ursnif-6864686-0
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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
69cc94f58fa5c3aefe8f0d906ff832dbc2ed8129861eeb657c12cc6229463ae4
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1012 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.