Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cb6e3cac0ada6d1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

10.5 KB First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: a690780f95b2f18f725512bf01c61bfd SHA-1: b17ecbcf5a4e3cbc32804a4a27dd477d82bdb040 SHA-256: 8cb6e3cac0ada6d14601f6092e95f34fb50f2a8043915a9a91c3eac49e7fedfc
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file exhibits legacy WordBasic macro virus markers, specifically 'RSN MACRO VIRUS', and is identified as a 'Goat file' by Costin Raiu. This indicates the presence of malicious macros intended to execute upon opening the document, a common technique for older malware.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Switcher-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Switcher-1
  • 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.