Malicious Office (OLE) / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f180efd69f361e4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

56.5 KB Created: 2010-02-10 01:26:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.5.5
MD5: ba1e052d203550bfc5e842960ef21013 SHA-1: 18613c6fbfd7842fd82c428fb6deb4351d97c007 SHA-256: 8f180efd69f361e44771c00d5f8635e8a4b67989f5b86dec4cf953033ec02808
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is a Microsoft Word document containing a malicious VBA macro, as indicated by the OLE_VBA_MACROS and OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN heuristics. The ClamAV detection (Doc.Trojan.Thus-8) confirms its malicious nature. The macro is likely designed to execute a second-stage payload, although the specific actions are not detailed in the provided evidence. No external IOCs were extracted.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
  • 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
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
8112eaf30248369ca3ff4ed2c5cb980fa4bf6adccab86df4411dc34ae79507f7
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2401 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely