AgentTesla — Office (OOXML) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8edeefa8a8c07604…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOC

117.5 KB Created: 2023-01-18 13:28:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 15.0000 First seen: 2023-01-19
MD5: 47a134bdca513e151fad9df8994813f2 SHA-1: 99a182f4760ee5a995f65d9bd0c4158a009b41d5 SHA-256: 8edeefa8a8c07604e753db1011e4389d057560cfb57b307e12587cdb17a13606
372 Risk Score

Malware Insights

AgentTesla · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Win.Dropper.AgentTesla-9969002-0. It contains a VBA macro with a Document_Open auto-execution routine that utilizes Shell() and CreateObject() calls. This indicates the macro is likely designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, consistent with the behavior of the AgentTesla family.

Heuristics 11

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Win.Dropper.AgentTesla-9969002-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Dropper.AgentTesla-9969002-0
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • 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.
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON
    Environ() call (env variable access)
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.
  • 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://www.allapi.net/
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
e0397a52a74f1651b3d318c41f3e8b2aa5c3f7e00bc5f445060a2b460ccbc165		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 19694 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
vbaProject_00.bin
46e03d1f4d188d20b6899588ec3758d2081daa044273e2bfdff1ea1e0285a944		 vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 49664 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Dropper.AgentTesla-9969002-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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