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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f433669bafea35f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

175.4 KB Created: 2020-09-17 20:07:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: d87a9d9d4202d019d6a7cdda0902dd6f SHA-1: aafcbcef51d578c998854146d78f9a50ccaa3047 SHA-256: 8f433669bafea35f75ac63a4e6aba4cb6345029b4f5d32f42c177071467f9623
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The critical ClamAV detection and high heuristic firings for CreateObject and p-code auto-execution further support this. The presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject suggests the macro attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, aligning with the generic downloader classification.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763054-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763054-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject 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.
  • 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
  • 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
620e9eb15c32ed012e3e43742d6a5833fa906ea09e2bf7ca9f4f384d7210c8d6
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 21992 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.